Barbarians. And stupid, too... What are they trying to do, keep us there?
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that if Afghanistan became somewhat more peaceful it would grant excellent cover to finally pull everything out of there and go home. Ongoing violence makes it harder to justify leaving, not easier.
The electorate would not permit us to lose people there
open-ended. Sooner or later the Congress will be forced into something such as Cooper-Church to terminate the
ground presence in Afghanistan.
As for the rascal Zawahiri and his minions.. the MQ-9s will be forever watching.
If things have gone as planned, my nephew left that hell hole today.