Some things to know. When George Bush left office in 2009, ISIS controlled six provinces in Afghanistan.
I am a Trump supporter, but he continues to blatantly lie about the conquering of ISIS. Simply not true. What they did is run from Syria and land in other countries. There are at least 16-18 countries with a strong base of ISIS in it, including Afghanistan. They controlled six provinces in 2009 when Bush left office, I do not know how much they control today...more most certainly.
Taliban and ISIS and el Qaeda are all in league with one another. We pull out, they re-establish Afghanistan as a training ground for future terrorists.
So, there is one word that tells it all.
V A N Q U I S H
We need to vanquish ISIS, el Qaeda, etc to such an extreme, that they do NOT reappear in the next 50 years.
So, what am I suggesting? Well, we know what provinces are controlled by ISIS in Afghanistan. We destroy every town, city, village. Use as many MOAB bombs as necessary to destroy every city, town, village controlled by ISIS.
George Bush was an idiot, wasting treasury and the blood of our youth ON THE GROUND. He could have destroyed Afghanistan from the air, but he was a puppet of the military industrial complex. He granted government contracts worth tens if not hundreds of billions to Haliburton with NO COMPETITION, Cheney's company he was CEO prior to becoming VP. Corruption never answered for.
The reason Gen George Patton and Admiral William Halsey were beloved during WWII was because they got it. They understood the ONLY way to win a war was to vanquish your enemy. Both held the opinion the only good German or good Jap was a dead one. In fact, Halsey in a speech in 1943 said, 'the only good Jap is a Jap that has been dead six months or more. In a country that supports the military as they do in Japan, the only good Jap civilian is a Jap civilian that has been dead six months or more'.
That's why Bush and Petreas were/are idiots. You do not vanquish an enemy by winning their hearts and minds. Ugggh You win by killing enough that they are no longer a problem. We do not have that in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, et al. We have created sovereignties that will be a major nightmare in time for the western world.
Even John Bolton did not espouse this mindset. He was a spokesperson for the military industrial complex. He did not have as a goal the complete vanquishing of the enemy.
Bottomline, kill every last mother's son of them, or fight them again one day in the future. That is the choice.