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Bad analogy for countless reasons, including an absences of version control when a commit is to blow something up.

• ceejayoz 5y ago
  Most analogies are imperfect. The point: there's substantial risk to waiting for an indirect, non-imminent threat to become a direct, imminent one. Addressing it is frequently easier and cheaper in the early stages. Isolationism was easier when adversaries took weeks/months/years to get to you.
  • sremani 5y ago
    US can delegate it to the regional powers or power brokers. US needs to make its Asia pivot now, you cannot waste military resources in a desolate land and stretch your self. Getting out of Afghanistan will make the big powers .. China, Russia et al. to pay attention now that Americans are no longer bogged down. 20 years is enough - I do not even know how many trillions are wasted. Do you know the GDP of Afghanistan, it is less than USD50 Billion. Pay-off the warlords put some mercenaries in Kabul, ask Indians and Russians to fund opposition to Taliban because it is their strategic headache. Give Turkey some security role because they seem to have good terms with Pakistan, so that Kabul is out of Taliban control or some kind of compromise. Not putting troops is not isolationism.. you apply other levers of your power.
    • numair 5y ago
      As my friends have told me, there are policy papers sitting in staff offices in DC/Virginia that say pretty much exactly what you’ve stated here.