I am pissed that we ever invaded them in the first place. The people under George W. Bush said that it would cost about 6 Billion and it ended up costing over 6 trillion, mos tof which got added to the national debt. They also assured us that it woudl nto end up to be a quagmire like Vietnam, meaning an unwinnable war, and 20 years later it has proven to be unwinnable.

I see the pulling out of troops as a long overdue action to correct a long failed policy. Yet we are still stuck with Trillions in debt due to Bush's bad decision way back when.

There was no way to pull out without the government collapsing for the last 20 years. Biden at least had the guts to do it, and ending What would have been a never ending money sink hole.

I'll play devil's advocate and say that the mission-creep that devolved into nation-building was doomed from the start. That being said, we could and should have kept enough military there to defend themselves and to keep the Taliban in check. My understanding is that the US had been doing that for the last few years without too many US casualties. We station many more thousands of soldiers in other countries for nothing more than economic aid to said countries. Having a base in Afghanistan would certainly have strategic value, and would show some willingness to stand up against religious psychotics. I'm betting that most of the cited trillions spent were diverted elsewhere, and/or wasted on futile nation building.

Again, I believe we should look at Afghanistan as an object lesson against our own situation wherein religious fanatics hope to overturn the government in favor of them getting and keeping power thereafter. Will the US also fold like a cheap suit?

THINK! How happy would you be, how inclined to "get with the program", if an invading force was occupying, uninvited, U.S. soil?????
We need to let the world find out what it wants for itself,, stop meddling, mind our own business!
Because things are Far from perfect here, who the F are we to preach to others?

Just a appeal for more money that gets siphoned off, corruption is rampant there

How many years were we stay and hold their hand? We need to get out of Iraq next.

The moment we (Bush/Cheney/Haliburton) started nation building, this was the foregone conclusion. Had we left the war lords in charge, with some military aid, they would have kept out most of the Taliban.

I'm sorry, but the U.S. has wasted over 2 trillion dollars and the lives of 2 thousand troops for nothing. It's just another Vietnam or Iraq and nobody has learned anything.

A false rationalization.

How long were we supposed to stay?
They knew we were eventually going to leave.
This is on them.
If they wanted freedom so badly, they would have been fighting for it, LONG before we ever got there.

Enough is enough, if they value their freedom so less as to stand and fight for it then they are not worthy of that freedom. Freedom is not free, and if they are not willing to fight and die for it as our founding fathers did, then we can't hold their hand forever.