We’re in Afghanistan 17 years and nobody in authority can articulate either a strategic goal nor specify who exactly the enemy we are fighting is.
There are only so many American bodies I’m willing to throw into the wood chipper in order to pursue no stated objective. That number isn’t very high. It’s like zero.
And yet our young men and women join the armed services voluntarily.
Do you take note of the terrorist leaders and groups we destroy from time to time? How do you think that happens?
When we killed Osama Ben Ladden, we raided in from Afghanistan.
Here’s a link for you. We lost six U. S. Troops in Afghanistan in 2017. Also mentioned is that we lost nine in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/world/asia/afghanistan-military-american-soldiers-deaths.html