US Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan, The Only Way to End War Forever

 Mike Pompeo recently threatened two Afghan leaders with a full U.S. military withdrawal if they didn’t resolve their political dispute and negotiate an end to the war with the Taliban.

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The United States’ inability to win the Afghanistan war through three administrations and nearly a dozen different field commanders since 2001 has shown that Washington can’t force competing Afghan factions to get along, regardless of how many troops we have deployed or strategies we’ve tried.

What President Trump can do, that all his predecessors have failed to do, however, is achieve success by ordering a coordinated and professionally executed withdrawal.

On Feb. 29, Trump hailed an agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban that was designed to end the “long and hard journey” of America’s war in Afghanistan. It was time, he promised, “to bring our people home.”

Unfortunately, there were so many requirements for external and competing actors to take unified action that there was no practical hope the agreement would end anything. The results and consequences of the past two Afghan presidential elections have painfully illustrated why.