>>>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?
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>Well no but we still have 28,000 in South Korea because North Korea.
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>>Have any US GI's died since the armistice in 1953?
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>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?

If we had gotten what we got in North Korea in Afghanistan, thousands of US GI's and hundreds of thousand of Afghans who are dead would be alive.

Tenuous peace is a lot better than war.