You also have to remember, many of our congressional leaders own stocks in the defense contractors so they vote to fund the war and thereby insuring their stocks do well.............
I think they plan on us being in Afghanistan for years.............this is from cuttingedge.org news updates:
VI. Perhaps all this rhetoric about whether President Obama will commit more troops to Afghanistan or whether he will begin a withdrawal has been trumped by massive military "facts on the ground".
NEWS BRIEF: "Pentagon starts an Afghan building boom: To make life all the more comfortable, and safer, for ever more troops", By Nick Turse, Asia Times, November 11, 2009
"In recent weeks, President Barack Obama has been contemplating the future of United States military operations in Afghanistan ... While Washington has put modest funding into civilian projects in Afghanistan this year - ranging from small-scale power plants ... to a meat market - the real construction boom is military in nature. The Pentagon has been funneling stimulus-sized sums of money to defense contractors to markedly boost its military infrastructure in that country."
"To keep up with its exponential growth rate, more than $200 million in construction projects are planned or in progress at this moment on just the air force section of the base. 'Seven days a week, concrete trucks rumble along the dusty perimeter road of this air base as bulldozers and backhoes reshape the rocky earth' ... The base already boasts fast-food favorites Burger King, a combination Pizza Hut/Bojangles, and Popeyes as well as a day spa and shops selling jewelry, cell phones ...."
"While the United States officially insists that it is not setting up permanent bases in Afghanistan, the scale and permanency of the construction underway at Bagram seems to suggest, at the least, a very long stay. According to published reports, the new terminal facilities for the complex aren't even slated to be operational until 2011."
It does sound to me like the Pentagon has already decided that America is going to stay in Afghanistan for a very long time; therefore, President Obama really has no decision to make. He is controlled by the Illuminati as we have been demonstrating for almost two years so he will make the decision he is required to make.
The Pentagon certainly will benefit from any public backlash against Islam generated by the Ft. Hood massacre.