I get the feeling, and have had it, that Trump doesn't not know how to use the military. Overall big picture. He's shuffling his feet in Syria/Iraq, and now Afghanistan. And it's not really a knock on him before anyone has a heart attack. He's a businessman. He appears to be doing pretty well in his trade wars. Better than I expected.
So I have to question why, when he has loose ends from one end of this Nation to the other being tied up in Dem-owned courts, he would take this on. Maybe he sees "Trump Ends Afghan War" as a feather in his hat. Not seeing that won't work because no way the US walks out of there a winner. The MSM/left is going to be all up his ass about not finishing what we started and we won't hear the end of it.
There is no winning a war in Afghanistan and never has been. I say exterminate the Taliban THEN leave. THAT was the mission. But suck them back into Afghanistan then quietly flank them where they can't run back aross the Pakistan border. Then you have to ask how much is that one, lonely airstrip we have in Pakistan worth? It IS worth a lot strategically. Worth an 18 year war? Maybe not so much.
Speaking of, just to prove how brilliant they are, the Taliban decides a show of force at the bargaining table by murdering a dozen people
You just can't make this shit up.
Our reason for being there dies with bin Laden (even if that reasoning is as short-sighted and shallow as it gets). IF we aren't going to do anything but prop up a government that is probably making a fortune in the opium market under our protection, we should leave.
But there is no honor in it. Should have thought about that before we bitch-slapped the first obvious bunch of assholes after 9/11.