Rather than invade their countries , kill their leadership and convert them to Christianity the easy strategy is to get them fighting and feuding against each other. They will happily engage in such insanity since heaven requires you die in battle so they kill the nearest Moslem who they consider not Islamic enough!
I work for afgans
It’s a complicated part of the world
Know that Pakistan needs to be kept in check (isi )
Turkmenistan is another
The taliban are entrenched
In short we have a giant base there now
Not so sure we need patrols outside Kabul. The only real City