If you read enough pieces saying that it’s time we got out of Afghanistan, you could easily form the impression that while there are great costs involved in staying in, there are no costs to getting out. I point you towards two pieces saying different. Trudy Rubin writes about ‘the gains [Afghan] women have made, and the terrible price they will pay if the international community turns its back on Afghanistan’. Julian Glover argues:
[P]recipitous retreat would certainly result in the collapse of everything we have sustained in Afghanistan, and the triumph of a foul insurgency that would inflict horror on the people of the country and that does not have their support.
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