Issue 12

Assess the 13-year American effort to rebuild Afghanistan.

Success: We established a viable constitutional society that was well worth our blood and treasure.

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Uncertain: Afghanistan still requires an American presence well past our scheduled departure.

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Failure: After removing the Taliban and establishing the Karzai government, we then should have withdrawn

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Failure: We should have just periodically bombed al-Qaeda installations and never inserted ground troops.

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Failure: We should have used only diplomacy to leverage bin Laden out of Afghanistan.

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