The game of the day seems to be the blame game, everybody pointing fingers in every direction. But, at the end of the day it lies squarely on the shoulders of Dubya and Dickhead. Their ill advised plan of "Nation Building" was a titanic mistake that cost thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars, all for nothing.

We should have blown through there in 3 to 6 months and destroyed Al Qaeda and any Taliban's who got in our way and then got the hell out of there. Oh sure from time to time we would need air and missile strikes to keep them from regrouping, house-keeping if you will.

But for the blame game, it's quite clear and always has been...

Up by orders of magnitude.

We learned feck all in Vietnam.

Nation building is up to the nationals. If they're not willing it don't matter how big, small or what political philosophy the organized insurrection is- the last man standing, with power to enforce his will WINS.