Pompeo: The Taliban, Who Live In Afghanistan, Cannot 'Wait Us Out'

That's all they are doing is waiting us out. Why wouldn't they be able to wait us out? How is the same narrative going on after 17 years? Just leave. We aren't affecting anything but creating more recruits for the Taliban. As soon as we leave, they will regain control. The country is a tribal culture as well - why don't policy makers realize that? They don't care about a centralized government. They care about their tribe and their region.

Agreed. It is not funny. This mess requires a coherent policy and planning

The Afgans waited out the Russians, the Persian the British empire and others, They can outwait us, we thing that years are meaningful, the Afgans s have been known to wait for Decades. The Shites and the Sunnis have been killing each other for Centuries over trivialities, a foreign army will get the same reaction.