I *guess* they could claim that the situation has changed from the time they sent in troops, and under the current circumstances they wish to bring our soldiers home...
Kind of like how Democrats pressured Nixon to pull out of Vietnam when US involvement in that war peaked under the administrations of Kennedy and especially Johnson.
Still, though, I think it would be premature to leave Afghanistan now. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if NATO has a viable exit-strategy, and that country has historically been one of the hardest to control for an occupying force.
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