The 20th Year of the Afghanistan War Should Be America’s Last
U.S. national security interests do not depend on the outcome of the peace talks. It’s time to come home.
By Daniel DePetris
Fellow, Defense Priorities
October 13, 2020
When the United State’s war in Afghanistan began, 19 years ago last week, Americans across the nation were reeling from the worst terrorist attack they had ever experienced. The airstrikes against al-Qaeda and the Taliban were designed with one goal in mind: punish and destroy the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.
It is unlikely the architects of the war could have predicted that thousands of U.S. troops would remain on Afghan soil two decades later. Yet this is precisely what has occurred as the mission lost sight of its original goal. It’s time to come home.
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