The Pros And Cons Of The Afghanistan War

The Afghanistan War did not come out to be the success everyone had thought it would be. It actually turned out to be quite the opposite. Continuing the Afghanistan war was a mistake because of it many people were killed or sent away from their families, it dragged on for too long, and has cost the U.S. billions of dollars. In just 2010 alone 711 foreign troops and 500 American soldiers were killed. (Strategic Studies 31.1 (2011). Academic OneFile. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.) This lengthy war seems to have no end in it’s future with 30,000 troops who have been sent with no exit strategy. With no organized strategy from the U.S, the Taliban have grown stronger and better with this being said the Taliban have gotten more control. This war has cost billions of dollars, according the department of defense the war has cost over $500 billion dollars. Money is not the only thing that has been at stake here so are the lives that have been lost; if it were measured in money it would be a much higher cost than $500 billion dollars.

Costs
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They have not been able to succeed the goals that they set for themselves when they were sent to fight. It has been way too long and nothing has really been accomplished. They wished to bring Osama bin laden and the Al-Qaeda leaders to justice but they still have not been able to do so. They are still over there trying to fight the Taliban and keeping them from taking over the afghan government. Is it really worth it for the American troops to still be over there? Shouldn’t they just be sent home since they haven’t been able to accomplish what they went for in the first place? The government can’t really justify the reasons that they have stayed in Afghan for so long. There is no way that this war can be won by having a conventional military force concentrating on the Pakistan