I'm not going to say that we should not be there, but we should not be there forever... or even for too terribly long. I'm a big fan of time tables and without one, we could just be dooming ourselves for a long and drawn out affair that we cannot win. I believe that the "diminishing returns" principle applies in Afghanistan, and the longer foreign troops stay there, the more difficult it will be to pull out. Unless we set a clear time table with tangible benchmarks, then we're nothing more than body guards for the sketchy Afghan regime (whose power is contigent on having the Taliban to fight against).
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