[jyl]

Was time to leave - was time a decade ago actually. Afghanistan has never been a country, it’s always been a bunch of tribal fiefs sometimes held together by force but never in spirit. We gave them billions of dollars and too many American lives. They failed to make a country. So be it. We made a deal with the Taliban last year, pulled out most of our troops, had a May 2021 deadline to go. Only alternative to finishing the withdrawal would have been to send 10,000s of US troops back in - no f-king way. Four Presidents over twenty years tried to find a solution. The Soviets tried, the British tried, there isn’t one. Over, done.