>>My concern is that Afghanistan will end up like North Korea and we'll still be there 50+ years from now.
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>Do we have troops in North Korea?

Well no but we still have 28,000 in South Korea because North Korea.

>Have any US GI's died since the armistice in 1953?

Yes I understand that - but my point is that no "final peaceful settlement" has been achieved with North Korea and as a result we have all these problems .. and how many North Korean's have died since the armistice in 1953?