18 years:
We’ve been there, trying to help those modernity-hating, heroin-dealing, boy-molesting illiterates.
FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Afghanistan and Iraq were a tremendous waste of American life and treasure. I am sure Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are just fine with us essentially declaring defeat. I did not always have this opinion and have been there. The problem is that an exit creates the vacuum and more problems in the long run. The poppy fields in Afghanistan should have been “agent oranged” so nothing grows for a 1000 years.