In the long term, the most plausible anti-Taliban force is the Afghan National Army. The ANA ain't the Marines, but it is composed mostly of non-Pashtun Afghans who've been fighting the Taliban and its antecedents for centuries. With the U.S. attempt to woo Pakistan failing, the President's message to the Pakistanis should have been clear: We will leave Afghanistan slowly, carefully, but not completely.
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