Put a 40 sq/mi no-go zone around Bagram airbase and pull out of everywhere else.
We might as well at least get a Diego Garcia-type of logistics base in central Asia out of all this.
Sounds like a good start. Then how do we get our people out of Bagram airbase?
Withdrawals are dangerous. When the British withdrew from Afghanistan in the 1840's they lost their entire army to ambushes on the exit route. Over 16,000 people were killed.
Only one soldier survived.
When the Russians left Afghanistan, they did so without prior announcements and were completely gone in 24 hours. We had best do something along those lines when we leave.
Anyone that gets in the way - just kill them.
“The initial goal of invading Afghanistan in the immediate weeks after 9/11 could not have been more clear: Get Osama bin Laden and oust the Taliban regime that gave his fanatical pack of beards safe haven to plan and practice the deadly attacks.”
These were achieved and then Colin Powell started his nation building crap with the other globalist. You are correct, keep a small base, and pull out or just pull out altogether with a warning to the crazies. We can come back and kill your training camps by air or by special forces anytime we think you are messing with us. If we do come back we kill you all and we leave. There will be no aid, no food, no medicine, just death.
I can’t find a coherent strategy that has been tried in Afghanistan, day one other than the initial statement in this article which they promptly abandoned. Pull out and don’t waste another drop of blood and treasure on this 7th century crap hole.