We’ve been there 16 years, at a cost of 2400+ US lives and several trillion dollars and the objective for this latest troop increase is to ‘blunt Taliban momentum’?
What on earth are we doing there?
“What on earth are we doing there?”
We’re stretched too thin and we keep hearing that Obama and Congress have allowed the military to atrophy.
I’m sure Afghanistan is a threat to some degree, but we can’t do it all at once, and we need to be prepared should a larger, more immediate threat emerge.
And there is always the question, if you defeat your enemy how do you fill the vacuum? Maybe the 50 Muslim countries Trump addressed in Saudi Arabia will step in to help, maybe they won’t.
No more nation building.
The memo should have said there would be zero troops in that ungrateful hell hole by next Tuesday.