Here are the choices. We stay to fight a continuos and draining conflict. Or we come home and allow the Taliban to overwhelm the Afghan government and possibly export terror and the next 911. I don’t think that given their record, allowing these radicals to rule the Afghan people is an option that is morally correct. And the presence of Islamic State in Afghanistan is deeply troubling. Because as bad as the Taliban are Isis is much worse. I grew up during the Vietnam Nam and remember how we threw vast amounts of “Blood and Treasure” at the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. We supported a series of corrupt regimes and lost almost 60, 000 servicemen during that conflict. And in the process we lost a generation that had built their moral imperative on what their parents had done to win the Second World War. Afghanistan like Vietnam Nam is a slow motion catastrophe. It is doubtful that there is any strategy the will successfully marginalize the Taliban and company. But I am concerned more about the Afghan people, whom are so pro democracy that 70% of them vote in their open elections. Can we abandon those who look to us for their future? It is a moral dilemma that will continue to haunt us for a long time no matter what the outcome is.