re: #15 freetoken

Those bases had little to nothing to do with nation building, though, after the original occupation. Both Germany and Japan had mature, productive societies that happened to take wrong turns. Democracy and law were not foreign to them.

And Afghanistan is still a long long way from even being close to post war Japan or Germany. So either let the Armed forces engage the enemy to win or pull out now, but don’t set an arbitrary feel good date and leave.