Should there be an exit strategy for withdrawing foreign troops from Afghanistan?
Considering Afghanistan has been occupied by the two most powerful militaries in the world, including the most powerful ever in the 70’s and 80’s, and they have all failed to either make the people like them or make the crazy Mujahedin put down their weapons, a country would be insane to just sent their troops back. There needs to be an exit strategy, but that’s a political thing. There is only one thing that will work for a place like Afghanistan, the same thing that finally worked in Cambodia: give them back their king. Afghanistan’s good old days is when they had a Shah. That’s the traditional power structure and the one they respect. The Shah was overthrown around 1970 by a military despot, and then a secular leftist government overthrew him, and would have maybe made the country a nice place to live if one of their members hadn’t tried to take over prompting the rest of their party to ask the Soviet Union to stop him, which prompted Jimmy Carter to give zillions of dollars and gun
