Confessions of a Dove in Afghanistan

from descriptions like this, I see that we probably should keep troops in Afghanistan. Their focus needs to be mainly on building an infrastructure that the Afghanis can maintain themselves once we leave. there will still be attacks, and it will take a long time, but at the moment it seems to me that the most important job is to build up and protect the areas that we can, before trying to open new areas. If we can stabilize parts of Afghanistan, then they can become centers of spreading stabilization. This could happen on its own, but it would take a very long time and many more people would suffer. And by focusing first on the areas we can help now, we can learn how best to proceed with this help before trying to apply it to all of Afghanistan.