I've always said this would be a long war (100 years ring a bell?). But, you want to attack me, so you disregard me and attack the Stawman Ned you have created in your mind. I give Trump and Biden the benefit of the doubt on the decision to leave, but you don't like that because you need to keep picking a fight with me. You can't help it. So, I get the wow treatment. Not a surprise from you.
Long term occupation was an option. But no matter what, leaving was never going to be permanent. I figured it would be a break to rest and retrain before going back over, there or somewhere similar in the future. Coming home, or staying...just strategies in an ongoing war. Afghanistan wasn't a war, it was a battle. Iraq wasn't a war, it was a battle. The war continues.
Pulling out in a way that ignores military realities to score domestic political points is moronic, though. That's what is happening.