“The only mistake they made is that they didn’t.”
They didn’t because ideologically they couldn’t, and were they in the same position today they still couldn’t. They were removed from governing Afghanistan because we could never again trust them; they had already considered us their enemy; and they still do. They intend to make war in Afghanistan until people like you outnumber people like me and our government is forced to let them occupy Afghanistan again. You foolishly think that will give US peace. It won’t. They will again become a sanctuary state for jihadists; just as is true now in the areas of Afghanistan they can control. They are NOT jihadists BECAUSE we are there. That preceded our being there and any use of that idea now is an excuse for blaming us for their belligerence.
Ok....
Well then keep an eye on them using old fashioned espionage, because Afghanistan has no navy, no real army, no airforce, and is land-locked. The amount of jihad nutcases are no more concentrated there than they are in most [all] Islamic countries.
You dont need our military there for 19 years because of some “trust” issues.