Reply #20: My point is that if the Afghans do not want the Taliban to be running their country

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then it is ultimately up to them to stop the Taliban. The Taliban is not being supported by a world superpower such as North Vietnam was with China and the U.S.S.R.
We kept increasing truth strength in Vietnam, a country half the size of Afghanistan, to over half a million and could still not win that war. We will not succeed in Afghanistan by incrementally increasing troop strength as we try to succeed, meanwhile other countries are pulling out their own troops.

If the Afghanistan people are such fierce fighters and have held off world superpowers, then they should be capable of taking control of their own country from the Taliban if that is what they really want. We cannot do that for them. We can give them all the weapons and logistical support they need, but get our own troops out of there. We are looked upon as invaders and the more civilians we kill or who are killed because of our presence, then the more we fail.