Great question Helen

[malaise]

What makes you think he can prevail when the Russians, the British and Alexander the great could not.
Gibbs: great question - you got me there.
Helen: Why are we there?

Gibbs comes up with the usual answer 9/11 bla bla bla.
She asked him if the 9/11 attackers were all Afghans.

I love Helen Thomas.

[Mari333]

1. allright Helen!!!!

she asks the questions we all want to ask!!

[rurallib]

2. Hope they let keep asking questions.

[biopowertoday]

3. I do think afgan is mushrooming without a clear objective nor

a strategy for leaving.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Good to keep them re-thinking their goals, and what's feasible.

[sandnsea]

5. I thought Afghanistan was the right war

And Iraq was the wrong war, the dumb war.

It's fine to be anti-ALL-war, but if that's the case say so and don't manipulate people against one war by pretending you've accepted a different war.

[MadBadger]

7. I think this is a fact that many on the Right and Left miss. Obama was never the anti-War Candidate

He along with many of us were just anti-Iraq war.

[Warpy]

6. Helen is an example of why the government

really needs that "grandmother lodge."

We old broads aren't afraid to ask the tough questions or to speak truth to power. Since the boat sailed with Prince Charming on it, we no longer feel compelled to make nice to dwate bigs mens.

She is a treasure.

[malaise]

8. Profound observation

Helen and Margaret types. :D

[yy4me]

11. I agree with you about we old broads and it does get me in

trouble from time to time. I think I'm just bossy and too old for anyone to give me too much grief about it.

And yes, Helen is a treasure.

[Supersedeas]

14. you're all treasures

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Helen asked that?

No wonder Chimpy Fucknuts' minions ignored her for eight damn years. She asks real questions. And she doesn't quit.

We do not belong in Afghanistan. We are going to get our ass handed to us there. Just as everyone always has.

I love her, too. Remember the bit she did in Colbert's video that he did for his National Press Club gig (which will go down in history)? She was wonderful.

[malaise]

12. Yes she did

It was lovely and Gibbs (despite the bla bla bla) was almost deferential.

[Spazito]

10. Helen, a journalist of the first order....

asks the tough questions needed to EVERY President regardless of party. She is a treasure, a person of high principle, imo.

[bdamomma]

13. you think she knows why we are there, and just wants to hear

an answer to her question, it could be for oil or keeping nuclear weapons out of hands of the taliban. My guess would be for the oil of course.