Get our troops the hell our of there now. No matter how long we stay there we will never make them accept democracy or anything near that in their thinking.
The longer we stay, the more we become just another tribe (clan, group) and the more troops we lose.
Let them fight their own fight, let them continue to kill one another in their tribal conflicts.
They’re not going to do that. That’s the hope of liberals, that the terrorists will consume themselves before organizing sufficiently to go after the Great Satan. Walking out of Afghanistan would be like walking out of Yemen, which already happened.
Not to mention what happened in Iraq once Obama pulled out of there.
The lesson of Rome is that tribes become confederations, then nations and then empires. They're not doing it for recreation. They're competing for the right to rule. Once the Taliban defeated most of their adversaries in the mid-90's, they provided a training ground for al Qaeda, which then prepared for 9/11.
I agree. Out, now.