I agree almost what you termed as defeat EXCEPT in order to rejoice a victory you need to make sure that you are able to maintain peace and have full confidence that you will be able to neutralize ANY form of threat to the lives of a common citizen of your Country in the long run. I am afraid the way things are on the ground
NO ONE is 100 % sure how things will turn out.
Peace and stability in Afghanistan is paramount and have a direct impact on the stability of the Countries who share border with it, more specifically Pakistan. The enemies of Pakistan will avail ANY possibility of creating enough CHAOS in Afghanistan to warrant a return of foreign forces and unfortunately ONLY time will tell if a sustained peace will be attained for the innocent Afghani civilians.
I am not aware of any developments so far on the involvement of Countries
together sharing border (and probably Russia) with Afghanistan in the implementation and support (monetary, humanitarian and military) to overcome the
vacuum that will be created by the return of foreign troops to their respective countries
which is of very critical importance. Make note that this is the vary vacuum which is always referred to be used by the "
non-state" actors in Afghanistan.
Eradicate the
gentiles with utmost ruthlessness ... as
gentiles have lesser value...