The best reason to abandon Afghanistan would be to watch the Taliban rip Karzai limb from limb after we leave. We’ve been there 10 years and they are no less barbarians than the day we arrived.
...and that is not going to change....after te years any who have desired a better life likely have left the country....those remaining have no will to fight nor desire to protect their own. How on earth to you explain "freedom" to a people entrenched with the teachings of Muhammed and their diabolical Koran?....the two are dimetrically opposed....it's a no win game.
And won't be. Islam is not a happy, peaceful, democracy-promoting kind of thing.
Yes - but as mnay posters here are missing - the strategy is to keep the animals in their pen.
They haven’t been here for a decade - but for a few.