When Afghanistan falls, you think its over ?

[maxsolomon]

31. Trust isn't the issue. Of course we don't trust them.

They have repeatedly said they won't harbor Terror groups (they offered to turn Bin Laden over in the face of our post-9/11 bombing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 ).

The US has little choice but to work from that, and verify verify verify. We do have the technology to monitor Afghanistan much more closely than we did in 2001. Quarantine the godforsaken place.

And it's not like we have fewer missiles and killer drones.