Feingold Disagrees

There’s a letter to the editor in the Daily News from Senator Feingold in which he disagrees with one of my columns.

Owen Robinson’s recent column is right to point out that we don’t have clear objectives in Afghanistan, but wrong to suggest our brave troops should stay on indefinitely as policymakers try to decide what those objectives should be. Instead we should look seriously at concerns that our massive troop presence in Afghanistan is undermining our efforts to go after al Qaeda and the Taliban in two important ways.

This doesn’t make much sense to me.  We should yank out our troops before we decide what to do?  Huh?  What if we decide that we need MORE troops over there?  We ship them all back and then some?  We shouldn’t instigate large troop movements without first deciding what their purpose shall be.