Tom M
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Regime change was also the public objective---along with dozens of other secret objectives all of which failed.
Now, they're begging Taliban to come to talk to them and agree to some sort of power sharing formula. (They had rejected Taliban's peace feelers back in 2001-02)
A trillion dollar worth of investment going down the gutter is what the US has achieved---not to mention the daily upkeep cost for keeping the ANA "functioning" in the future. All is within the cross hairs of AT---be it Kunduz or Farah(Right on the Iranian border[hint: Chabahar])
Any guerilla movement will be happy with a stalemate (if you consider it to be one) like the one in Afghanistan.
They can stay for as long as they want, it won't bring them any good---Casualties for their puppets will only increase along with the cost incurred on the failure known as Afghan govt and ANA.
Things didn't go according to the plan for them---who could've thought that the sole superpower will talk to rag tag "terrorists".
OK. Taliban won, you won. US failed.
By the way is there were many secret objectives as well how come you know they failed when you don't have a clue about those objectives.