The Real Story Behind Time's Cover

The US government (and Obama is t00I of it now) has no intention of ever leaving Afghanistan. Freeing Afghan women, allowing a real democracy to exist, etc., would mean we had "won" and could go home.



Why do you think Bush made every counter-intuitive move to actually lose the war in Iraq? Why he sent Paul Bremer (replacing Jay Garner), who mucked it up so badly, disbanding the Iraqi military and firing all Iraqi government employees, leaving everyone without salaries?



Think of it as Penelope (the wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus in Greek mythology), who waited 20 years for her husband's return from the Trojan War (ten years of war, and ten years on his way home). She kept her many suitors at bay by telling them she would marry them when she had finished weaving her web (a shroud for her father-in-law). She wove during the day only to unravel it during the night.
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