first of all afghanistan is a conflict not a war, big difference.

second of all we cannot beat the terrorist threat there. even if we were to catch bin laden and all of his associates, we are not necessarily fighting a group anymore but more the notion of islamic terrorism. to this it is imposible to stop entirely. even by nuclear bombing afghanistan we would only stop the islamic terrorism in that country, the problem is that it has spread now into western countries.

so with that in mind we cannot win in afghanistan, the best we can do is help their resources, build up their police and military and leave them to try to deal with the problem on their own.

if us pulling out in the next few years goes well, hopefully this will be the case