
Its a shame but 'we' lost, starting from the day the western force leaves the Taliban will get more and more influential and in the end they will take back their power.
You cant win from an ideology. For us its just a mission, for extremist organisations its about ideology. As long dying for the cause is heroic its easy for them to kill many persons without needing a lot of soldiers.
Only way to win from the Taliban is from the inside out, Afghanistan itself needs a revolution. A clear cut with the past. And us arrogant, spoiled, countries should let them sort it out. We are just helping the extremists propaganda machines. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made the world all but safer.
Luckily in Holland most parties want to keep their original agreement: last soldiers home before Christmas next year. Only some (opinion here) stupid explicit Pro-USA groups changed their mind and want to revise that plan. Nothing against USA's policy from my side now. I just think its troubling that there was an agreement and now we let some guy control our armed forces and tax money.
Its not my fight and I am not willing to pay for it. And luckily more and more people share this opinion now in Holland. We've done our share. Bring the boys home. They did more than well and they deserve the rest
