This may not be the most popular opinion around here, but is stuff like this really a justification for us being there? Atrocious things like this happen all over the world and have been happening for a very long time. I'm not sure you can look at incidents like this in the country we happen to be stationed in and say "see? we should be there" and then turn a blind eye to the other places that are seeing violence at the same level.
Afghanistan is a tricky situation for me. Years into the conflict and I still haven't formed an opinion on whether we should be there or not. I'm sure we're making positive advancements, but when it's all said and done and we get out of there I really question whether it'll just fall right back to where it was. If that does in fact happen, what did those soldiers die for?
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