If you listen to this clip...

...of Frank Gaffney from "Hardball" yesterday and substitute the words "Vietnam" for "Afghanistan," and "Communism" for "Sharia," it sounds eerily like the debates from the 1960s. Have we learned nothing from our Vietnam experience? It's time we had a national conversation about our goals and objectives for Afghanistan. Do we really want to commit more American lives and resources or should we cut our losses now?