I have long railed against our War in Afghanistan… indeed, railed against our practice of Perpetual War…. What we are doing there is simply wrong.
The neo-con idea of spreading democracy through the use of force, an idea taken up and run with by our current Nobel Peace Prize winning Democratic President, and condoned by the boy’s and girl’s club in Washington, is quite simply, ridiculous.
Destroying the homes, the lives, the possessions of the Afghani citizens that lived in this village does not promote their friendship, does not promote the idea of America as a peaceful, democratic society that deserves emulation.
Read this article. Look at the photographs.
The Vermont Farmer's Blog 
George Washington did not seek a third term – he saw term limitation as a bulwark against monarchy – and Thomas Jefferson railed against the prospect of life-long presidents. In 1807 he wrote, “if some termination to the services of the chief Magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nominally four years, will in fact become for life.” Madison and Monroe followed the two term limit, although later presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant and Woodrow Wilson, flirted with the idea.