Note: This writing is experimental and not of my normal writing nature. It discusses a controversial topic.

President Barack Obama recently announced he was increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan, adding more than 30,000 troops in order to “stabilize” the situation in Afghanistan. Shortly after, Obama’s rating dipped below fifty percent, according to CNN.

Perhaps it is this endless war that dragged us into the economic disaster. The years spent fighting the Mid-East wars will be for nothing if we pull out, so our only hope is to pour more lives, more money, and more time to feed this beast.

Are these wars still pertinent to the September 11, 2001, attack on American soil, or have they funneled out of control, creating an endless war very similar to the Soviet’s presence in Afghanistan back in the 1980s? Truth be evident, these wars aren’t about 9/11 anymore.

The original aim of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was for President Bush (43rd President) to find “weapons of mass destruction) after the attacks on the World Trade Center happened. The total casualties for this war have gone over 1.3 million deaths, some say.

But perhaps is the true reason of bin Laden’s misdeeds to derail the United States government, shame the United States, and make us weak? Perhaps this is so. In the beginning of the war the US and UN troops acted quickly. It is possible that bin Laden was disappointed.

Then came the aftermath: al Qaeda, the Taliban: so many terrorist groups. The US has to send more and more soldiers in to wrap up what they’ve done so far, and doing this only causes even more money to go down the drain, even more lives to be lost.

This war never should have been fought. We should have moved in and then moved out. It shouldn’t have taken this long. But it has. And whether bin Laden is alive or not, chances are this war has turned out better than he ever thought.

I don’t like wars. So many wars start out without point. The Mid-East wars are wars that started out with a point, but ended up without one. What is being done is good, but it has taken too long and has taken too large of a toll.