I agree with Bot, but maybe next time we have China draw the short straw. Russia had its hard times, US & NATO have had theirs. Maybe ten years from now it'll be in China's economic or security interest to play whack a mole for a decade. Hell, let'em have it.
And, yes, some people do need killing.
Come Mr. Taliban, tally me Afganistan......
......Daylight come and me want go home....

If we can't get a deal with Karzai, which I've read has support of many Afgan officials, or his successor, nothing else to do but pack up & come home. Our Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, Sailors, CIA & SpecOps did everything asked of them.
Let's just try not make the final image a UH-1 departing from the rooftop of the AmEmb.