“It’s been seventeen years, and it costs us thousands of good men, but we are finally leaving Afghanistan, having signed a deal with the Taliban which will keep them out of power in one or two districts for at least several days or hours after we exit.”
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It’s honestly infuriating. We had just cause to go to war against the Taliban. The strategy for routing them out at first was brilliant. But we couldn’t hold anything or build anything. And here they are again like nothing happened the last seventeen years.
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"Light footprint" strategy of early war set stage for later troubles.
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Fair enough.
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