Remember our war for Independence against the British? How we needed the help of the French? Did we want the Frenchmen to stick around and be an occupying army? No, we wanted to be left alone.
Our current plan of nation building is the worst path to take. We are not going to find Bin Laden, we are not going to hunt and kill those that support him and his ideology, and we are not getting support from the locals for a central government in Afghanistan. Our goal of eradicating the poppy fields is also foolish, we are only making it more valuable to grow and also taking a source of income away from the local farmers.
We leave 15,000 troops in Kabul, handle only the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the rest of the country will take care of itself.
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