I disagree with everything you have stated completely on your post It is time to withdraw from Afghanistan.  I served in the military and I know many men and women who have deployed and came home, most in one piece some not.  The war on terrorism was not just about killing Sadam Hussen or Osama Bin Laden.  It was to obliterate terrorism against the United States from the Al-Qaeda.

     Now, since President Obama decided to pull our troops out before the country has been stabilized that is the cause of so many American deaths.  What idiot (beg your pardon for the term but I lack a more accurate term) would pull troops out of a hostile country.  We barely helped them set up a government and now we are abandoning them.  We will be right back where we were in about two years.  

     You say more than 80 soldiers have been killed since 2007 with the majority in 2009 right?  Well Obama was president for a year by that time and as soon as he put foot in the door he started depleted troop size in Afghanistan.  So that is your reason for the deaths of so many soldiers.  Because he has not allowed the military to handle a military situation.  Instead a man with no military background or training what so ever is given control over them and decides on a whim that he is going to withdraw troops without thinking of the consequences.  And the media is even worse they project the image that its because of these killings that we should withdraw from a country.  Hello we are still in Berlin and how long ago was that war?