Staring you right in the face

If you still need a reason to support the idea that those western nations still fighting and dying in Afghanistan should simply pack up and leave, how about this one?

Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday. The remarks were in sharp contrast to recent tension between the two neighbors over cross-border raids, and Afghan accusations that Pakistan was involved in killing the chief Afghan peace envoy, former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, by a suicide bomber on September 20. "God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," he said in the interview to Geo television. "If Pakistan is attacked and if the people of Pakistan needs Afghanistan's help, Afghanistan will be there with you."

Yep. After more than a decade (the war began on October 7, 2001) of blood, sweat, tears and untold billions of dollars spent by countries such as the US, Canada, Germany, France and the UK fighting and dying to free and protect the people of Afghanistan, its Presidents says that if push came to shove, he would fight against those same people. They don't want us there, so we should just pack up and leave. We have done more than our share. Now its up to them.