This is the fucking reason that the US can’t win wars.

US never really defined what would be a “win” in Afghanistan.

• They kill Bin Laden and still don’t pull out.
• Taliban numbers go up the longer they stay to “stabilise” the country that they destabilized.
• Eventually retreat so fast that half their shit gets left behind.
• Spend a trillion or so dollars and keep under 10 billion in Afghanistan reserves as a way to say “gotcha”!

But at least cheap Afghan opium trade got restarted!