Jack Cafferty: Military-industrial complex has this country by the throat

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty railed against the United States' ongoing involvement in Afghanistan following the alleged murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a rogue U.S. soldier.

"How much is enough?" he said Tuesday. "The United States has been in Afghanistan for more than ten years. And President Obama insists we will remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2014. Why? What will be accomplished by staying in that godforsaken hellhole for another 20 months that hasn't been accomplished in 10 and a half years?"

He noted that recent events, including the burning of Qurans and desecration of Taliban corpses, had inflamed hatred against Americans in Afghanistan.

"Yet the Obama White House is out with a statement insisting that none of this will deter us from our mission, which is what exactly?" Cafferty continued. "I have no idea what the hell we're doing there anymore. Isn't Osama bin Laden dead?"

He cynically predicted Obama would only hasten withdrawal from Afghanistan if he thought staying there would imperil his re-election campaign.

"Why don't the American people have anything to say about what we're doing?" Cafferty added. "We have no voice in any of this stuff any more. They go into Iraq, they go into Afghanistan, they might go into Iran. We got nothing. We're just kept in the dark and the government does whatever the hell it feels like doing, or preferably what it is being told to do by the people who pay the politicians' bills. Remember that warning from Dwight Eisenhower about the military-industrial complex? It's got this country by the throat."

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