Afghanistan is a hard choice. If we leave, we create a huge safe haven for Radical Islamic Terrorists to use as their next temporary home. And they grow there in the way they did after Obama created a giant vacuum by pulling out of Iraq prematurely. We still have troops in Japan and Germany. Why so surprised that there are troops in Afghanistan? Key for our troops - stop the attempts at expansion of territory, help Afghans defend a much smaller territory so we aren't having any more troop losses in Afghanistan