We were obviously propping up a thoroughly rotten government.
Can anyone really think that, if we had stayed another few years, or ten years, the Afghans would have been able to stand on their own?
And it also undercuts people who say “we just left the wrong way!” It was rotten to the core. It would have collapsed immediately no matter how - or when - we left.
What was the better choice? Stay there forever? Have this collapse occur next year? In five years? Twenty? How many more billions did you want to spend - and how many more American lives did you want to lose? And American blood would have started to flow again, if we didn’t pull out. The Taliban had stopped targeting Americans for more than a year, because of the agreement at Doha to leave…if we didn’t, americans would have started to die again.