A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.
Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.