Twelve Taliban killed in NATO offensive: .......now what

We have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001 and 9 years.....yes 9 years and billions of dollars spent are we any safer....are we any better as a country....what could we have done with the hundreds of billions of dollars we have spent in this war! The military defense contractors are getting rich, the oil companies are getting rich, all the private defense contractors are getting rich and for what......lets pull all these troops home..station them along the borders, the harbors, and the shipping yards! we will be safer and it will cost less! Its time to bring our boys home and start putting this country back together. Its time that we started spending all the war chest on the economic stimulus, and jobs creation.......its time to pay off the debt before it sinks us!........9 years later........now what?