Continuing the war in Afghanistan is necessary

I will try my best to dissect the Pro's massive one sentence arguments and offer counter points to each.1) Eliminating every last terrorist "Al-Qaeda is being hunted by US troops right now but we don't to go chasing after them all over the world with tanks and helicopters and armies why bother that's not the kinda of war Al-Qaeda is fighting"So since Al-Qaeda is not fighting an open war against us your saying its foolish to try to hunt down all of them right?"that's not enough these two groups are on Jihad they have to be destroyed every member must die."First off, thats pretty contradictory since your denouncing the tactic of trying to kill all the terrorists and then you endorse the same strategy in the same sentence. Second off America cannot kill every terrorist in Al-Qaeda or in the Taliban, Arab extremism has stretched from Saudi Arabia to Somalia to Sudan to Indonesia to Pakistan to Chechnya and so on so on. Point is its impossible to kill every last member of these terrorist groups and its pointless to try since there will always be more of them hiding somewhere. America's goal in Afghanistan was to remove and dismantle the Taliban government in Afghanistan and severely limit the potential Al-Qaeda has to wage terrorist warfare. We've done both of those now and we should pack up and leave rather than turn this war into a crusade to kill every last terrorist which will never end. 2) Military and civilian deaths as a result of the war. " we shouldn't be trying to defend these people are not our civilians and are coasting US lives"So we should not take into account the number of civilians killed in this war because they are not OUR civilians.... People are still people Pro, as long as the US occupies Afghanistan civilian deaths will continue to occur as a result of US troops engaging openly with insurgents, terrorists, etc. " it is not our job to protect these people we do it out of the goodness of our heart it is their governments job to defend them not ours"We cant let their government handle it if ours is still there pouring billions of dollars into this war to do things the way WE, not they, think it should be done. If people want the Afghanistan government to handle this we should withdraw and let them handle it rather than do everything for them. " as for burning qur'an's those men have been being attacked because that book told their enemies to do so you can't blame them for wanting its destruction."You have no idea how Islam works do you...... People werent protesting and attacking us because their Holy book told them too they did it because WE BURNED THEIR HOLY BOOK. 3) Awareness of Al-Qaeda and defending from them at home rather than fighting them in Afghanistan"they did it once and because of American ignorance on the topic they can do it again"Have you even been in an airport since 9/11? security measures are extreme and they do a very thorough job of making sure planes dont get hijacked or blown up. The US meanwhile has created an entire AGENCY to fighting terrorism (Department of Homeland Security), the FBI now coordinates with other intelligence groups to track people suspected of terrorism, we have numerous government agencies created just to examine data about terrorists to see if they are terrorists, and the US has avoided numerous terrorist schemes since 9/11. We are no longer ignorant of how they operate and we know very well how they operate, more than enough to prevent another attack like 9/11" there are different ways of attacking then hijacking our planes and crashing them into buildings"And we defend against them to if you havent noticed4) Recruitment for Al-Qaeda"not true the recruiting for Al-Qaeda has been no weaker than before"sources showing that Al-Qaeda is struggling to find new recruits and new fighters or is now too weak to pose any large threathttp://topics.nytimes.com...http://www.washingtonpost.com...http://www.thedailybeast.com...http://www.washingtonpost.com...http://www.npr.org...http://www.infowars.com...Al-Qaeda is very much struggling to find new fighters. 5) Extreme aggression towards terrorists by the US" if it gets worse take Afghanistan as an American territory"1) Thats illegal since Afghanistan has its own government already2) This war has already cost us a ton of money and making the place a US STATE would only cause the cost to be permanent3) That would be the ultimate sign of US imperialism which would piss off a lot of people, including the Afghanis who dont want us there anymore" that would trap the Taliban trapped in our nation they would become just another gang that we could seek out and crush with our police force"It would trap us because out new US state lies next to Pakistan on one side, Iran on the other, and more Arab countries to the north so the terrorists would certainly not be rapped, WE would!"chasing them out of the mountains is not impossible its just a big job"A big job that we've had 10 years to do and we still havent gotten it done, so impossible is a very good description of what you want to do. " I personally have done things many people said was impossible but its not."Was it comparable to eliminating every last terrorist in the mountains of Afghanistan? I doubt it. " its beat them down so bad that they will never recover"We HAVE beaten them down bad and with all the Arab Spring revolutions causing democracies to spread everywhere it looks like these terrorists wont be able to climb back to the power and numbers they were once at. 7) The cost of the war"The war only coast a lot because we make it coast a lot war can be profitable we just need to be aloud to loot and pillage and take from the Taliban camps"I doubt that the Taliban has $500 Billion worth of loot just lying around in their caves......."maybe America wouldn't be in so much debt if we didn't waste money on doing things like rebuilding countries after destroying them"Since thats exactly what we're doing in Afghanistan that sounds like just another reason why we should leave, because the US has resorted to nation building a nation still fighting itself costing us time, soldiers, and a ton of money. 8) Already leaving"We should not schedule the end of a war its not a football game its a war you stay until the job is done"Having an end date gives us motivation to get the job done in the first place. Other than that though this doesnt dismiss the fact that we ALREADY have a withdrawal date and if America were to stay in Afghanistan that would have to be changed, a change that nobody would like. 9) We cannot simply end terrorism Pro and even if we try there is a certain point where enough terrorists are killed so that America can confidently protect itself from them. We have reached that point now and there is no need o continue fighting a war against a group of people who cannot effectively jeopardize US security for a long time. 10), 11) StalematesI dont even know what the Pro is arguing at this point but Im guessing hes saying that since Afghanistan isnt a complete loss YET that means we can stay as long as we want and make it a US state if we wanted too. Also reporters dont cause us to lose wars Pro...12) Bad handlingCases of bad handling the war in Afghanistan,Recklessly spending moneyNot training the afghan military and police wellNot being able to give it a working economy like we hopedFriendly fireUnaccountability of funds and weapons we gave to AfghanistanKilling civilians Pakistan