Public works!(?): Afghanistan...asking the hard questions

“…the best way to overcome widespread public opposition in Europe was to demonstrate progress in the war, which could be accomplished by turning over control to Afghan forces in areas where the security situation is good.” Rasmussen

“Obama said Tuesday that by setting a date for withdrawal, he was trying to create added momentum for building up the capacity of the Afghan government and its security forces.

“The absence of a time frame for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the Afghan government,” Obama said during his speech. “It must be clear that Afghans will have to take responsibility for their security, and that America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan.”"

The opposition: “It could take years and years more,” McGovern told NPR. “I think sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan will make it 30,000 times harder to get out of this mess.”

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), called the plan “an expensive gamble to undertake armed nation-building on behalf of a corrupt government of questionable legitimacy.”

The Taliban responded Wednesday by saying the White House plan would only make it fight harder. In a statement, the hard-line Islamist militia said it was “committed to increasing the number of mujahedeen [holy warriors] and strengthen[ing] their resistance.”

(US soldiers are fighting holy warriors. Who has the right to resist and for what reasons are we resisting one another? What is our quarrel with one another, and why are we as enemies only marked by qualms? What was characteristic of the enemies from our history?

Does the US stand to provide alms, whereas the Taliban stands to claim territory?)

“During the first eight months of 2009, there were nearly 13,000 enemy-initiated attacks in Afghanistan — more than 2 1/2 times the number reported in the same period in 2008, according to Pentagon data.” What else could reason for this increase in attacks?

NPR “Afghan Plan Faces Tough Questions on Capitol Hill”

"What, if any, conditions would need to be met to begin drawing down troops by the july 2011 target date?
Is the withdrawal condition based?"

By placing more marines in Afghanistan, will they outnumber their Afghan counterpart?
Most men fighting in Helmand, Afghanistan were 10, 11 years old when the trade centers fell--what kind of reaction can you expect from the boys and girls in Afghanistan and Iraq now? --In other words, does the Taliban today encompass a reactory group of previously impressionable 10, and 11 year olds sitting on the other side of 9/11's wake?

Al Qaeda changed after 9/11 attacks upon the CIA's classic "full-fury America!" reaction. The group began to act as a brand that only needed to sell terrorism. By marketing that Muslims suffer because America props up repressive regimes.
Does a claim of insanity ever warrant a victim his legitimate grounds for making others as victims? Is a claim of insanity reason for a large scale terror attack; or relinquish a man of his punishment due to his inability to "help himself"? How would you diagnose, characterize, identify, those who buy and wear Al Qaeda? --as victims, as criminally insane, as terrorists?