Preventing a nation-state from falling into the hands of the Taliban, lest it become a staging area for God knows what.
Pretty soon half the demented actors over there are going to be able to put their hands on some pretty big ballistic hardware .... want them to be able to deploy it without molestation, as Saddam did when he was rocketing Tel Aviv?
One of those will eventually have a "yield", in kilotons.
Every day Obama works for Islam, to weaken us in the face of regional powers and delay our own projects. The US arsenal is now about 1/4 what it was when Bush 41 left office.
Pretty soon we'll be down to parity with the Chinese and in deficit to the Russians. Then what, when the president of 1.4 billion Chinese starts telling us how things are going to be? But Obama lives for that.
If it is a staging area and they attack the United States of America we simply NUKE them into oblivion. Until then I don’t give a tinkers damn about those folk. CLOSE THE DAMNED BORDERS! Save our children!!