America Could Be in Afghanistan for Another 16 Years

[rangerrebew]

America Could Be in Afghanistan for Another 16 Years
Dave Majumdar

American forces could still be in Afghanistan sixteen years from now—or even generations from now—under the White House’s current strategy of maintaining an open-ended commitment to that war-torn nation.

“I think we will be there in sixteen years,” retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John Allen told an audience at the Center for the National Interest during a lunch-time discussion on Sept. 13. “But I don’t think this is a sixteen-year loss on our part.”

Source URL (retrieved on September 19, 2017): http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-could-be-afghanistan-another-16-years-22362

[Fishrrman]

We are accomplishing nothing in Afghanistan other than wasting the lives of our soldiers and container ships full of our treasure.

It doesn't matter whether we stay 5 years, 15 years, or 30 years.
Sooner or later, we'll have to leave.
And when we do, it will revert right back to what it was before -- a worthless hellhole full of worthless people.