We are funding the Taliban

I'm not crazy about paying a lot of taxes. I know some are necessary, and I love this country so I try to complain only a little. I also like to think the tax money I'm handing over to Uncle Sam is going to be spent benefiting me, my family and my country.

The amount of American money and lives lost in the Middle East is bothersome to say the least. I'm not against the idea of crushing a regime that strikes terror in the US and other nations. I am against failing and sitting back watching us make really awful decisions that we are paying for. Our means and methods are questionable. Is it absolutely crazy to think that we could send teams of specialist into Afghanistan and seek out the heads of these networks to tear them apart from top to bottom instead of spending so much time, money and lives chasing the ground men and bottom feeders of these terrorist groups? Is it really necessary for us to set up bases, establish our presence, tear down the place one small bomb at a time then stay and rebuild it all at a cost higher than was paid in the first place? Are we playing SIM City Afghanistan?

We did this in Japan after dropping 'The big one,' and that made sense, but does that method work in this new sand cave and dugout war? I feel like the roles have reversed. We beat the British with their uptight, single row, musket lines with our early American frontiersmen, hunter style. Now we are applying large scale, atomic war rules on a game of cat and mouse, and I don't believe it's working. It's definitely not efficient!

It's obvious there are way more skins to this onion than we have been told. Obama based his whole campaign on the speed and methods at which he would remove troops from the Middle East and now he is sending more in. Apparently the insider information as to why we need to be there is pretty compelling or Obama is just a follower instead of a leader which I don't believe is the case.

So fine; this Middle East cause is important. Can we at least do it right and efficiently? When my tax money is spent on rebuilding waterplants ran by the Taliban, I get a bit worried about our process over there. I just read in the WSJ that we have already spent over $100,000,000 of your and my tax money rebuilding one waterplant in Afghanistan of which the profits go directly to the Taliban. Does that sound like a good idea? We can't get a grip on our deficit, it could destroy our country as we know it and yet we throw around money funding the very foe we are trying to defeat. We are totally self defeating and I think it's past time our direction on this war is reevaluated!