Huckabee on Afghanistan

Jean likes Huckabee. I think he's pretty good. But, he occasionally goes off on an illogical tangent.
This past weekend he wanted to talk about Afghanistan.
He had a couple of ex-generals and ex-colonels. May I remind you that generals and colonels study war. They don't study peace. They also promote war, in the same way that football coaches promote football.
The main issue of the discussion was Pres. Karzai's release of about half a dozen prisoners, which had been captured by US forces. It is said that each of the prisoners had explosive residues on their hands, which indicated that they were involved in the production and probably use of improvised explosive devices (IED's), which have killed and maimed many of our US soldiers. Huckabee and the generals thought it was an abomination to release these people from captivity, since the likelihood is that they would continue their work with IED's.
For some unknown reason, no one brought up the fact that as there will no longer be any US forces in Afghanistan, the terrorists will not be able to use their IED's to kill any of them.
In the last part of the Huckabee Afghanistan segment, a major was asked what the effect would be on the removal of all US forces from Afghanistan. He explained in great detail that it would be devastating to the development of a democratic society for the Afghan people. So that's why we were in Afghanistan! We were nationbuilding!