Sold the circus to the troublemaking roustabout with the mean streak and the drinking problem, who should have been sent packing.
I’m sorry. This is bad foreign policy, and it will ultimately bite the US in the ass, which is still tender from the last big chomp taken 17.5 years ago. I remember that day all too well, and it was caused by leaving crazed, goat-smelling fanatics free to take over after kicking the Russians out. Not only did they attack the United States, but—SURPRISE!—they’re genocidal monsters as well.
So we should stay there forever?
Bad policy was going into Afghanistan when it was Saudis who did 911. Its not our business to save people from their nutty cultures.