Stan Goff,
You are completely correct. Thank you for having the courage to say so.
No matter when the US left or under what conditions, the result would have been the same or nearly so.
Prolonging the inevitable did no one-not the Afghans, not the US soldiers, not America in general--any good.
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I have spent most of my adult life teaching and tutoring algebra but have recently made a late-life career switch and have earned a PhD in English.
