As I understand it, we pulled out 3000 troops, noticed that no one was there to check the Taliban, and are now sending 5000 troops?
You either want to be there, or you don’t. We’ve had 20 years to make up our mind.
Think of the logistics of flying five thousand troops halfway around the world into territory held by the enemy after the enemy has collected a ridiculous amount of armaments we left behind.
What could possibly go wrong....
wrong...
wrong...
This is exactly the opposite of Sun Tzu’s tactics.
He would have said evacuate everyone you can, and under no circumstances send anyone else into the death-trap.
Here we go again. Next week it will be 10,000 troops.