Don't we all wish it were so simple.

Putting our troops into a country is so simple compared to pulling them out without leaving chaos. The fear is that if we pull out without leaving a sustainable strong afgan government structure the whole region will disentegrate and a more general war might erupt.

We seem to have succeeded in Iraq at least to some extent so far so it may be possible in Afganistan too but there are many significant differences between Afganistan and Iraq.

With Pakastan and India sharing borders with Afaganistan the fear is they will engage each other (they are traditional enemies). They both have nukes so we are working very hard at all times to keep them inside their own borders.

A nuclear exchange between them could result in a climactic change endangering the very existance of much of mankind.

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