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My opinion is a simple one. He should have gone up there and said, "Here is the plan for Afghanistan. It is a shit hole. It has been for as long as anyone can remember. It always will be. They are extremists. You can't reason with extremists. We are packing our shit and leaving. We will still use drones to keep an eye on them. Anyone in the country that doesn't want to live under Taliban rule (or the rule of whatever nutjob takes over) pack your shit and come with us, we will find you a decent place to live. If you choose to stay, you get what you asked for. Nobody has ever won a war here, I'm not going to continue to spend American dollars and American lives trying to prove we can."
That is it.
My take on what will happen: We will send the troops and we will kill a few terrorists and we will get some kind of control over the country and eventually we will decide that everything is good and we can leave. We pull out and not too long after that there is a coup and an extremist takes over the country and we are right back to square one. I predict the same for Iraq as well.
I guess I am a little pessimistic.
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