Why West Lost Afghan War

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Like was said to Jefferson, "if you fight the pirates, you will be fighting them for ever." That should have been said here, after 911, and the people should have been both informed and prepared.
There is no empire when you fight for your own survival?

Did Jefferson decide to have US troops stay in Tripoli for a decade in order to transform it into a liberal republic? That is the equivalent of what we are doing in Afghanistan. Al Queda is gone from the country and set up in W Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Taliban is no threat to our national security. Should they come back into power and allow AQ back in we can take punitive measures. We won in Afghanistan in 2003, however we fell into the nation-building trap. The Taliban are the Pashtuns - the nations largest ethnic group - they will be in Afghanistan longer than us, that is certain. Now we are in the position of being on one side of a centuries-old tribal conflict, the outcome of which has no impact on our national security.