We have to stay there to keep the poppies growing, the pipe lines built and protected
We have no reason to continue being there
Maybe never did
I understand that sentiment, but to be fair and more accurate, once we thought the obliteration of the Taliban & AQ was done we should have pulled out. If crazies act up again just bomb them back deeper into the stone age...they seem to like the stone age, so it is a public service after all.
But we should have pulled out by 2003-2004. There is no way that territory was ever going to be pacified and democratized like it was a civilized nation.
PeacePrize is trapped by libiot ideology and foolish beleif that they are smarter than everyone else (especially those Bush clowns!) and can create an Afghani Spring that transforms this sh*thole...
Fools!
And as usual it is the troops that pay with their blood for the sins of this Regime until that certain day arrives where they finally pull the plug and leave this festering sore to fate.