Re:F-35: What The Pilots Say
by HenryKissinger on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:38AM
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Petraeus said Afghanistan was the kind of conflict we were in our for the rest of our life, and our children's lives. Just my $0.02.
There might be a chance of ending the war during a lame duck presidency, but that President will be thinking of Legacy at that point.
Thus the only politically-viable course of action is to keep the war going. As a sibling comment mentioned: war serves more than one purpose.
Unless of course the culture of America shifts to an anti-war or non-interventionist stance and sees peace as more important than "winning" or "losing" in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening any time soon.