Continuing the war in Afghanistan is necessary

1) Eliminating every last terrorist" don't go at them with armies go at them with special forces"We DO go after them with special forces when we are the ones on the offensive, and we only go on the offensive against high value targets. It is the army who defends the country when we're playing defense which is why we need BOTH when fighting them"take the region under American control cut their resources use the nation for building of America"That would take DECADES to do and the terrorists dont just get their resources from outside Afghanistan, they get it within Afghanistan too. By the way America isnt exactly the best at keeping borders secure (Mexico) so if we cant even keep our own backyard secure how the hell are we supposed to do the same thing in the Middle of terrorist country???"its better to have them on the run than to have them attacking our cities."first off, theyre not running their hiding, second there is only so much they can do if they only have a fraction of the forces they had before, and thirdly you keep forgetting that we do know how to defend our cities now. 2) Civilians"Who cares if people are people"The US government and the world cares Pro, and just saying that we shouldnt doesnt mean we will just stop caring about them, and it certainly doesnt make you right either. " its not our job to protect them now if they would lets say surrender their nation to the US then I would care for them but until then not our problem"Yes it is our problem, if we want their support and approval to help us fight the people who attacked us in the first place then we need to return the favor and protect these people from the very same terrorists who made their lives hell 20 years before we even gave a crap. We also need their support if we want to even operate out of Afghanistan too so protecting civilians IS a priority and even if you dont like it, too bad the US army is doing it right now and if you dont think they should, give a reason why dont just say "well they shouldnt"3) Qur'an"The Mohammedans fight because they believe that's what the qur'an tells them to"Not all Afghanis are mohammedans though, a very large majority of them are regular sunni's or shi'ites who do not follow or support extremist Islam in the first place. They still were upset though because we burnt and because tension between the civilians and our presence in their country is only growing more strained and abusivehttp://www.cfr.org...http://www.dailymail.co.uk...http://reason.com...4) Defending at home"We may have learned somethings from 9-11 but we are not untouchable"We certainly are a lot harder to touch though, how many planes have been hijacked since 9/11? answer = 0 ;D" most of your sources are highly American useful for propaganda"At least I GIVE SOURCES for my information, also I didnt know that the New York Times or the Washington post were "propoganda" Im aware of your hatred for reporters though so I can see how you think all reporters are spreading propoganda....5) Annexing Afghanistan???They have a recognized independent government so if we make it a state without their permission thats an ACT OF WAR. "what's the UN going to do come in and arrest America"Just goes to show how the Pro thinks America is right about everything and nobody can say anything wrong about them.... POP QUIZ, what was the last power to do whatever the heck they wanted to do without any care to what an organization or league of nations said?Answer: Nazi Germany...."Making it a state we could harvest resources causing it to be profitable"Afghanistan is mountains and sand there arent enough resources anywhere to offset the cost of a 500 BILLION dollar war, and even so those resources belong to Afghanistan, not the US military..."The Afghanis will get over it when they aren't starving and living in mud huts"They're not living in mud huts and starving, do you do any research at all? Afghanistan is just like any other country now they have cars, electricity, etc.http://travel.nationalgeographic.com...6) Surrounding us"With Israeli forces ready beside us and what are the terrorists going to do send their tanks in"You are killing my brain cells over here. Afghanistan is surrounded by countries that breeds terrorists who could easily slip into Afghanistan and cause Carnage, Israel has nothing to do with and they certainly wont be able to stop them. 7) Cost of the WarSo you want the US to take anything that they do confiscate and sell it to African warlords to use against their own people in their own genocides to fund a 500 billion dollar war.... There arent enough camps or weapons caches hidden in the mountains to ever come close to selling it to impoverished African countries to make $500 billion 8) Already withdrawingThe Generals already got the job done! Taliban have been removed from power, Osama is dead, and Al-Qaeda has been severely reduced in power, that was the goal in 2001 and the job was done, it was later we decided to make Afghanistan economically stable, but thats not a job for American generals its a job for Afghani economists. The job is done so now they have a right to come home sicne the mission was completed9) Future threat"If they can ever jeopardize American security again we must continue attacking also we have to kill them all."Thats a ridiculous claim since the Pro wants to kill anyone who is a threat to America, but terrorists arent the only threat. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, ALL COUNTRIES JEOPARDIZE AMERICAN SECURITY. We cant kill off the world because they are a threat. Solar flares are a threat to American security should we blow up the sun? how about meteors, one large enough could kill us all should we send all of our nukes into space to blow them all up?We live in a world where there are countless threats to American security, including America itself. There is no possible way America can defend itself by killing everyone and everything that is a threat, and staying in Afghanistan to eliminate every last terrorist is not a possible task either since they come from all over the world, even from within America. 10) + 11) ReportersReporters didnt cost us the war in Vietnam, we lost Vietnam because the people we were fighting we fighting guerilla warfare and thrived in inhospitable terrain while the ones we were fighting for let us do all the work for them and they were an inefficient democratic regime. After years and years we realized that Vietnam would end at a stalemate at the very best so we eventually began turning the war back over to the vietnamese and then we left after spending billions and billions of dollars on the insanely long war. For the record, how much in common does Afghanistan have in common with Vietnam after reading all thatI invite the Pro to nonetheless explain how reporters cost us the Vietnam War and how they could do the same with Afghanistan...12) Why we should leaveUS is recklessly giving them money they cannot account for anymorehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com...Police (who doesnt attack us) are poorly trainedhttp://www.thewashingtonnote.com...US trying to improve Afghanistan economicallyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com...All the other solutions the Pro tries to give are his own opinions of what we shouldnt be doing, they are not actual excuses for dismissing these issues because they ARE happening and are very valid reasons why the US should not continue the war in Afghanistan until all terrorists are dead.