I would say the difference between nam and a-stan is that our goal was to get Al-Quada/Bin Laden., since we were attacked. Which we did. So the exit strategy should have been after we got Laden. Guess the US also tried to gamble and also fix/implement a government as well and decided to stay longer. Now we are seeing what is happening. They also gambled in Syria with Asaad and lost that.
Same went with Iraq, once we got Sadaam, perfect exit time. Screw trying to help them form a gov and all other stuff. This also saves face. We got the head guys, now we're out. We are not the world police or responsible to help other countries grow a the cost of US lives. TBH, we should not have entered Iraq to begin with either due to the WMD fake news. Iraq never attacked the US to warrant another war. The Gulf War, Kuwait was asking for our help (they're an ally), so a little more understandable with that one.
1 of my friends was in A-stan. Luckily he never lost anyone there. But he did lose a wife to Jody. So he's pretty pissed.
There are about three guys on this site that know what Jody is.
I'm one of those guys that reads the Constitution. Except for having to react quickly
to an emergency, Only wars that are legal are ones declared by Congress, and
signed into law by the president.
Anything less is not legitimate. Even at he end of WWII it took a year or so for
Congress to repeal that declaration of war passed in 1941.
War is serious and must be treated that way. It is supposed to be the very last option,
we have made it too easy, that needs to cease.
