I’m in favor of having our troops leave. We never civilized the Afghanis, mostly because of the GWB decision that all these places we had taken and made safe then had to give Islam a privileged place in their new constitutions. What I feel bad about is all the people…ranging from Christians to feminists…who trusted us and then we basically abandoned them to radical Islam and just kept our troops there to prevent any attacks on our embassies.
We could have transformed these places had we really carried out the mission. People would be happier, safer and more prosperous now. So that’s the problem: our military wins the war, and the politicians lose it.
A very wise analysis.