I hear you. But I see no reason to send billions of dollars to this hellhole. We need to leave and then when it gets out of control dispatch drones. Don’t fix it. Just break it periodically when it severely threaten our interests. We cant get rid of radicals but we can make it difficult for them to grow and hurt us.
Drones require Pakistani bases and airspace. The ones we're using are easier to shoot down than WWII piston engine fighters. Bound as we are by human rights considerations, we can't kill 'em all. The fear is that leaving the Taliban to rule means another $100b attack like 9/11, against which a few billion a year is peanuts. At the same time, I can see at least one good reason to let the government fall. A second 9/11 attack on NYC might finally get the liberals riled up enough to let our guys take the gloves off.