The U.S. deployment to Afghanistan will have lasted just over 15 years—one of the longest continuous military operations in U.S. history, which makes it hard for some observers to take seriously the argument that it hasn’t lasted quite long enough. What could the United States achieve in the sixteenth or seventeenth year that it has not already achieved? What conceivable national interest is at stake in the remote and inaccessible Hindu Kush that demands the continued investment of American blood and treasure?
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