Get the hell out of there, we have been protecting Karzai...... don't continue to provide him with that protection going forward.
Another strategy is to get Karzai out of there. Just posing other ways to think.
We were attacked 9-11-2001, and it was planned from Afghanistan. What we have done thus far has NOT achieved total victory.
We deserve to totally defeat them, subjugate them, beat them down into utter submission. It s never to late to do so.
In case nobody's noticed, we subjugated Germany and Japan, afte totally defeating them. We have had no trouble from them, since.
With all of our power and weaponry it has become nearly impossible for us to do, what we once did, is astounding.
So tell Karzai to pack and go bugger off. If a local attacks our troops, decimate the entire surrounding area, cattle, goats, people young and old.
I despair that we sacrifice our troops' limbs and lives, to spare Afghan civilians posing as friends, but harboring our enemies.
Kill one of ours, we kill 1,000 of theirs. Eventually they either learn and submit, of run out of people.
I believe we squandered the chance to teach all of islam the consequences of waking a sleeping giant, again.