Moving to neighboring countries provides the opportunity to spend billions or tens of billions on the move.
Then there’s this gem: “…the United States would remain an active participant in the construction of a democratic Afghanistan in a civilian capacity even after troops leave”
That’s going to work out real well, as always. The only democracies the US created were Germany and Japan after complete and total destruction.
And you would be 100% correct.
I guess we are now going to have another military branch: Blackwater. Who the hell in the right mind would want to work on projects with the savages? Consider, these slugs kill health workers distributing polio vaccines. We made one big mistake, should have left the place looking like hiroshima circa August 10 1945.
They were both civilized countries until the WWII era, though.