The primary reason for our invansion of Afghanistan was to capture/kill Bin Laden and senor members of Al Qaeda

Bin Ladens dead and over 10 years we have killed and captured hundreds of AQ members

So, can we leave Afghanistan now?

What are the arguments for staying? Not fully built up structure collapse?

Skatchkins wrote:What are the arguments for staying? Not fully built up structure collapse?

basically a "we broke it, we bought it" argument

Do the previous owners care?

another argument for staying is that if we leave the taliban and AQ remnants will take over and build up more terrorist groups

I see two options.

1. Pull out a good majority of our troops but keep a small training force there (at the request of the Afgan nation). Their job is to train their soldiers to protect themselves, while providing intel on AQ movement.
2. If the Afgan nation does not want us, then we initiate a full withdrawal and with the warning of, "keep your house in order or we will send in the BIG ONE and turn the whole place into a large molten glass bowl".

I believe that our money is much better spent on 5 things:

1. Increasing ID technology at all of our US Port of Entries, to keep out the unwanted.
2. Increase manpower of our US Border and Custom Enforcements.
3. Build BIG walls and fences.
4. Have our National Guard monitor thermal and microwave sensors by utilizing UAVs along the entire border and deploy US Border agents to trouble spots.
5. Increase CIA and Homeland Security budgets and let them "do what they do".

These are cheaper alternatives than sending soldiers into harms way, supplies, support, and paying off foreign governments. In the long run, it will save us Billions!

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