We’re in Iraq AGAIN...because that AH Obama pulled all our troops out. We CANNOT let ISIS and the Taliban and alqueda take over the world. We have to close doors.
who is with us ? do we carry the load alone, again ?
The Taliban already control 2/3 of Afghanistan. This is their country. They are the tribal leaders of their areas. Take them out and some other tribal leader will emerge, maybe by a different name but probably the same principles, extremely conservative Islam.
There never was a mission in Afghanistan except to take out OBL and this is accomplished. We cannot kill everyone in the whole country because we don’t like how they organize themselves.
Afghanistan has always been a collection of tribal fiefdoms, not a central government as we know it. We can’t force our ideas of nationhood (not to mention democracy etc) on them. It is a fools errand
How many more of our people have to die or be maimed for life fighting their tribal and religious battles for them?
You cannot close the Taliban door because the source of the Taliban is the indigenous population of Afghanistan. Kill 1000 Taliban and they just recruit 1000 more. That’s why Russia could not defeat the Mujadeen. The Mujadeen morphed into the Taliban.
My guess from Trump’s speech is that he is planning to kill them all and let God sort it out then go home. That will give the Afghan military a year or two to secure their country. If they don’t not our problem.