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.
Well, to me one life is one too many but I get that people die in a war and I get the original intent of going after OBL - a necessary mission.
But we’re still there...Hillary and friends screwed up the ME with their avarice and greed and who knows how many others contributed to massive resentment for our interference. Now that we’re energy independent - for now - seems to me the ME is less important.
I just wish we could leave the ME and tell them to pound sand.