'I fear we will look back and regret the decision to withdraw,' David Petraeus said
"I fear we will look back and regret the decision to withdraw," Petraeus said. "Sadly, we may regret that sooner than I had originally thought when I said that right after the decision was announced."
American, British and other international forces invaded Afghanistan late in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks and rapidly ousted the Taliban regime that had supported Osama bin Laden and provided him refuge. Bin Laden fled to neighboring Pakistan and was assassinated there by U.S. forces in 2011. The Taliban, however, never fully went away, and the war lingered on.
"The Afghan National Security Forces had been fighting and dying in very large numbers. And they still are. The problem now is they're not sure if someone is coming to the rescue, and that injects a very considerable amount of uncertainty into the battlefield," he said.Zakaria also noted reasons for American frustration with the war in Afghanistan, including the inability to get at Taliban bases in Pakistan.
"No one wants to see endless wars ended more than those who have actually served in them, but we are not ending this war, we are ending U.S. Involvement in it," he said.
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