Another value-not-added article, brought to you by easy-fling words on the internet. A leader would analyze what we are supposed to be getting from this war and whether what we are doing there is bringing us closer to that goal. A serious look will show that either the current policy, which seems not much different from that of the previous administration, is without a rational basis, or that we are not being leveled with about the real reason we are there. Don't look to this "author" for any enlightenment. He doesn't have a clue.