Trump and Afghanistan

My latest over at Inforos:

On September 11th, 2001, this author lived (and still lives) in northern New Jersey, about thirty minutes from the Twin Towers. The September 11th attacks touched the author lightly. He spent the morning tracking down relatives in New York City. His grandfather watched the second plane crash into the Tower #2. Four men from his town were killed in the attacks.

That autumn, America struck back with righteous fury the likes of which had not been seen since Pearl Harbor. Using special forces and CIA paramilitary teams who worked with warlords friendly to the United States, in just a few months, the United States deposed the Taliban and triumphantly entered Kabul. The Taliban retreated to the mountains and, from there, Operation Enduring Freedom morphed into a nation building exercise and by 2006, a counterinsurgency.