I have a hard time not agreeing with POTUS despite wondering about the source for the info in this article.
America has not expended tons of lives in Afghanistan.
For young men, Chicago and Baltimore are more dangerous than Afghanistan. More Marines were killed at either Tarawa or Pelilu or Iwo Jima than in Afghanistan in the whole time since the beginning
our location in Afghanistan is strategic. Bases in Afghanistan and Iraq flank the real enemy that is Iran.
I would guess the argument for us being there is to have a strategic place to deploy from?
Since the ME is probably our biggest threat, not to mention NK and the like,that is why we are stationed there?