Engelhardt Excellent on Afghanistan

Tom Engelhardt, whose posts are almost always worth reading, does it again with an excellent post on the danger to America posed by continuing to try to fight in Afghanistan.
His basic point is that just because the Soviet Union lost the Cold War, that doesn't mean the U.S. won--it could mean that the U.S. lost more slowly.
Our bloated military budget is a clear symptom that the Cold War disease still infects us.
http://www.alternet.org/audits/125564/?page=1