It is also like a roach motel--you can get it, but you can't get out. Actually you can. Just leave.
Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan won there with a mix of slaughter and bribes,but it there any reason to stay there. There is no gold and any real precious resources there. Location used to be an asset since Afghanistan is on the way to everywhere. Afghanistan sits in the middle of Asia, so it is hard to avoid.
In order to win there, you need the support of the Afghan people.
We don't have it.
They will never push the US out.The US will never beat the Afghans. End result--just a waste for everyone involved. The British found out in the Nineteenth Century, the Soviet Union found out in the Twentieth, and now the United States is walking over the ground---literally.
US soldiers going to boot camp in 2019 were not even born when America invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after the World Trade Center attack.Osama Bin Laden was killed in 2011. There is not reason to be there anymore. Pick up and go, leave a couple of Special Forces behind to "hop and pop" the Taliban to keep it from reforming
Geo-politics is not hard.
It is just that politicians are idiots.
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