Seems like you folks think the Taliban were a legit and agreeable government... Would you approve of such a government in your own countries? Would you like your daughters and sisters being deprived of school and employment, your footballs and chessboards taken away, no music, no TV, no movies, no culture?

The Taliban were rather perniciously devised by a meeting of three interest spheres. It is only just that they pull their sleeves up and stick their arms elbow deep in the mud that they offered the Afghan people as a stable system of government and society. I do not support any troop pullouts until Afghanistan is a normal country. Or at least, what it was before the war against communism began. That will probably require absolute eradication of the Taliban and most importantly their ideological breeding grounds. Extreme conditions demand extreme responses.