washington turned the political screws. and the pakistanis cried foul. collective damage, the collective effort to hearts and mind are being undermind, because the attacks are produci producing. the backlash led to death threats to the top aid in islamabad in november. there was some ground game and the forces increased their numbers and improved their capability through nato training as citizens benefitted from the new school and jobs. the siege in kandahar boosted the troop s morale especially when the taliban didn t come back. in the strategic review the president had to explain why there would be no hasty exit from the theater. it s important to remember why we remain in afghanistan. it was afghanistan where al-qaeda plotted the 9/11
of course, their crowning achievement is, and probably will always be, the airport in washington, d.c., which they renamed for mr. reagan, but there s also, you know, the ronald reagan florida turnpike and the ronald reagan minuteman missile site in cooperstown, north carolina. there s ronald reagan elementary schools and middle schools, everywhere from idaho to yuma, arizona, to grand prairie, texas. there s everything from the existing mt. reagan in new hampshire to a ronald reagan bust that is apparently inside a mcdonald s in tuscaloosa, alabama. it all counts. it s all on the reagan legacy project clickable map. even the one in the mcdonald s. conservative activists trying to pump up ronald reagan s legacy have proposed that ronald reagan displace ulysses s. grant on the $50 bill. at one time, they even proposed that ronald reagan be put on the dime. but that might be a little bit of a hard sell, since the person who s on the dime right now is fdr and he does have his fans that so