How about just saying goodbye and good luck. It is clear that a majority of the Afghan population are welded to their Muslim centered culture. They wish to live that way. The US cannot change their perspective by force of arms, nor should it try. No further presence is justified unless there is a real and imminent threat to harm the American people. Globalist fantasies should not be the basis for deploying the American military. Its up to the Afghan people to work out their own social consensus. Americans are achieving nothing with their sacrifice of blood and treasure. This entanglement is simply creating needless bitter enemies and inconsolable grief for the families of the American dead wounded and those that have been psychologically maimed.
Gold Star post of the day.
We tried to do exactly that back in the 1980s after we helped them drive out the Soviets, let them live the way they live. Want to know what happened as a result? The 1993 world trade center bombings, Black Hawk Down, USS Cole, and 9/11, that’s what happened. If we do that, we’ll be right back where we started. So no, we can’t afford to just “say goodbye and good luck.” That strategy has long since passed.
Of course, personally, I’d prefer just dropping a nuke on Mecca, do the same thing to Islam and the Middle East that we did to the Japanese back in World War II, especially when the precepts that drove the Japanese to do their acts, Shintoism, is not that much different than with Islam’s tenants, and thus probably would elicit a similar reaction if we nuked them to kingdom come, break them. However, that’s not a viable option as of yet.