Trump wants troops in Afghanistan back stateside by Election Day

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13. President Obama had crafted a much better plan.

Like it or not, we have obligations there now. Bush should have never gone in, there were other ways to get bin laden and his thugs. But we went in there and many Afgans have sided with helping us - what happens to those people? Do we leave them to be killed, which is likely their fate of we haphazardly withdraw. The country is riven by ethnic grievances, the Taliban is pretty much 100% Pastun (sp?) and is basically from the South and Central of the country - they are culturally more like Pakistanis. Groups in the North, NorthEast, and NorthWest are ethnically closer to the people of the countries that abut those regions. I hate to say it, but maybe we should use any influence we have to divide the country up into several countries, each with their own culture and Capitol - my belief is making that work in a lasting way would be better and less costly than any other route.

And we should not impose our western values on those cultures, as hard as it is for me to say that. Unfortunately, some places have dark ages thinking relative to women's rights and other rights. If we want to cause change to those views, then we must recognize that one possible outcome of that would be a seemingly never ending military entanglement.