Afghanistan isn’t the Middle East.
Under Mullah Omar, a man so fanatical that he was hardly ever even photographed, and only then covertly, the Taleban allowed al Qaeda to use Afghan soil, to echo what was said at the press conference yesterday, to train and base its operations there. That was a situation that could not be allowed to continue. Furthermore, as already stated, there already was an armed resistance fighting the Taleban in the north.
What has happened since was actually working but sadly the will, understandably, of the US to remain was seriously weak, especially when coaxed by populist politicians of both sides