Do you think we have troops in Afghanistan for the long term, just like Korea and Japan? Do you think we should? https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-you-think-we-have-troops-in-afghanistan-for-the-long-term-just-like-korea-and-japan-do-you-think-we-should <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What&#39;s the advantages or disadvantages for us to be there long term?<br /><br />Peace! Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:18:24 -0400 Do you think we have troops in Afghanistan for the long term, just like Korea and Japan? Do you think we should? https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-you-think-we-have-troops-in-afghanistan-for-the-long-term-just-like-korea-and-japan-do-you-think-we-should <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What&#39;s the advantages or disadvantages for us to be there long term?<br /><br />Peace! SSgt Harvey "Skip" Porter Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:18:24 -0400 2018-03-13T00:18:24-04:00 Response by SPC Joseph Wojcik made Mar 13 at 2018 9:53 AM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-you-think-we-have-troops-in-afghanistan-for-the-long-term-just-like-korea-and-japan-do-you-think-we-should?n=3442349&urlhash=3442349 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I&#39;d rather us withdraw. The best thing we can do is cut off funding for extremist groups by cracking down on the opiate trade, shattering the CIA into a million pieces, and severely punishing bankers who even considering sending monetary resources to religious zealots with funny beards. Hand power over to the Afghan people, let them carry out kangaroo courts and summary executions on anyone who entertains the idea of &quot;Jihad&quot; or a Caliphate.<br /><br />As for Japan, they should be aloud to have a proper military once again (as long as they don&#39;t start a third Sino-Japanese war). SPC Joseph Wojcik Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:53:09 -0400 2018-03-13T09:53:09-04:00 Response by SPC David Willis made Mar 13 at 2018 12:41 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-you-think-we-have-troops-in-afghanistan-for-the-long-term-just-like-korea-and-japan-do-you-think-we-should?n=3442879&urlhash=3442879 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>In Korea and Japan we were fighting Korea and Japan with some outside actors or assistance. In those wars you could win by holding land or decimating the enemy. In Afghanistan we are fighting an ideology. I&#39;m not sure how much more stable that country would actually be if we left troops there. Not to mention with our capabilities today Kuwait is a perfectly fine place to keep troops that can respond to any threat immediately without the threat of loss of life. SPC David Willis Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:41:14 -0400 2018-03-13T12:41:14-04:00 Response by SGM Bill Frazer made Mar 13 at 2018 1:18 PM https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-you-think-we-have-troops-in-afghanistan-for-the-long-term-just-like-korea-and-japan-do-you-think-we-should?n=3443034&urlhash=3443034 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If you go that route, then every piece of propaganda the ISI, Talliban, etc. are using will become truth- &quot; coming to subjugate us, destroy and defile our religion, etc.&quot; SGM Bill Frazer Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:18:02 -0400 2018-03-13T13:18:02-04:00 2018-03-13T00:18:24-04:00