As before, there is just no good foreseeable end game in this forsaken wilderness. It has been bombed to rubble and occupied for forty years. Government has been reduced to tribalism and the resent our presence. Sure, there are a few that desire us to stay and help establish a working country but they are not enough to justify the expense and lives we would expend there.
We just can't take every misbegotten population in the world under our umbrella indefinitely no matter how much we have to offer them. They still must make the effort on their own as our experience in Iraq so able exemplifies.
Yes, I am certain that the Taliban will return and they may give refuge to terroristic elements but we will have to deal with them another way. Fact of the matter is that it is our relationship to Israel and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians that creates enmity toward the United States. Focus on that problem and the danger relents.
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