The only good way to do this was to never invade and conquer but instead to chase ObL and capture him and fight the Taliban only as needed. How Bush got out of any responsibility for his reckless adventurism, not only here but the unforgivable tragedy of endless war crimes and crimes against humanity his Iraq invasion was, is the real tragedy here not Biden's "execution" somehow being sub-par. Per usual Democrats have to clean up after Republicans.
Decimate the country and leave ASAP. Rebuilding and making sure terrorists aren't harbored again is between the people and their new government. Either permanently occupy or leave after decimation. Half assing it like with vietnam will always end in wasted lives and resources.
I mean, look at afghanistan, the war ended in 2004. The US could have declared that country their new territory and every conflict would be domestic terror. They did not need to stay after 04, they stayed to keep the place stable not to defeat the taliban (which militarily, they did).
The US military today is a bloated, inefficient force sucking up resources that would be better spent elsewhere. They’re funding blimps to watch drug smugglers at the US border, for Christ’s sake.
The populace of the US will not stand for additional military adventurism on the scale of Vietnam or Iraq. Trump started the process of withdrawing from Afghanistan and was lucky that Biden got stuck with the mess Trump made of it. It was forecast to be a broadly popular move and would have been had execution been slightly better handled.