Oh, That's Right! You Have To Do The Same Stupid Thing Over And Over Again For TEN Years Before It's Officially A Mistake

To Secretary Gates, General Petraeus, and all the talking heads who keep telling me that we haven's given our Afghan "strategy" enough time:
We've been there for nine years, folks. Nine. NINE. NINE FUCKING YEARS. N-I-N-E FUCKING YEARS.

That's longer than American troops were in the Civil War and WWII combined, longer than . . . oh hell with it, put in whatever math you want--I need a beer!