So can any of the troop increase supporters answer my questions?

[AllentownJake]

How do you bring order to a country with a 28% literacy rate and religious fundamentalism. Do you think the Taliban arrived in some sort of Vacuum? Got a hint for you the Taliban is reflective of the Afghan people. The moderates in that country are religious fundamentalist. How long do you have to spend in a country to change that. As a comparison Iraq has a literacy rate of 74% and a history of a strong centralized government, military, and infrastructure for education.

Outside the Human cost (killed civilians, military personnel) how can we afford a larger war in Afghanistan when we are running a 1.8 trillion dollar budget deficit. Who is going to lend us the money? What strings come attached? Can we pay it back?

What is our objective? A strong centralized government? Infrastructure? Educating the populace?

How long are we going to stay there at these levels. 2 years, 5 years, 10 years.

Honestly, other than this is Bush's mess what are our reasons for staying there and how do we hope to improve the situation of a country that was in the midst of a civil war with an uneducated armed populace before we got there.