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by RugnirViking 1834 days ago
that may well be the case. But it isn't a compelling reason not to leave. Our presence isn't exactly wanted by the locals, and there are plenty of other places in the world with bad things happening and proxy conflicts
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> But it isn't a compelling reason not to leave

I'm not of that opinion, my point is that the US military hasn't reached their 'fighting terrorism' objective, and they might have made things worse for one of their allies (this being a motivation to stay).