I've been watching that war and I have come to the same conclusions.

I wouldn't call Afghanistan a country like the United States is a country. Afghanistan is more like a collective of warring tribes that happen to populate a geographical place on earth named Afghanistan.

The Afghan people like their tribal infighting and the constant conflict. We're trying to impose our values on them and frankly they don't like it. We should stop and get out of there. Sometimes we just have to let people be, Afghanistan is one of those places. When the Taliban move back in and assume partial control we need to just let them be, in couple hundred years maybe they'll get sick the of the Taliban or maybe not.

You want to hurt the Taliban? Spray agent orange or some poppy killing chemical all over their fields, then you'll hurt them. Monitor them from satellite and when they get a compound or a farming collective up and running drop a couple of low-yield cruise missiles on it. Get our people out of there, use technology instead.