“Now let’s talk about reality,” Kilmeade weighed in, noting recent statements by Afghan President Karzai asking for U.S. troops to remain at their bases and stay out of the country’s rural areas. “In reality,” Kilmeade continued, “we’re paying the bill for the entire security force of the Afghans, we are training them, and if we leave, he gets hung from the nearest lamp post.”
“But let them do it, Brian,” said Rivera, acknowledging that he doesn’t quite understand what Karzai’s “game” is in all of this either. “I say we’ve done what we went there to do. We have killed bin Laden, we have decimated Al Qaeda, we have accomplished our mission. Let’s declare victory, bring these people home, don’t let them be killed now by an ally and shot in the back!”…
“These are people,” he continued, “for whom the Holy Book is their whole lives, and the deaths of children is just a passing event.”
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