The United States needs to improve their war effort in Afghanistan to remove Taliban influence and stop al-Qaeda operations. For as long as seven years, America and our allies yet still fight in Afghanistan, with a war fueled with joblessness and poverty, why isn’t failure a option. What is the problem with “Enemy Combatants?” Who are they and how should they be treated? But the biggest question is why is the war essential to our security. America has been fighting in Afghanistan for many years. But have we made any progress? America first went to Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban regime because it was providing a safe haven for al-Qaeda. When we got to Afghanistan in 2001 we defeated the Taliban in an amazing three months. So why are …show more content…
Their job was to cool down a toxic cauldron of local insurgents otherwise known as the “Valley of Death.” The valley is a total of six miles long (almost 10 km). No one has ever made it to the other side. We don’t know who or what is on the other end. What is President Obama reaction to all of this? On February 18, President Obama sent over eleven-thousand more troops to Afghanistan. When they all got there the grand total was fifty-five thousand American troops plus another thirty-seven thousand from our allies. Obama’s new plan is to counter terrorism and to bring stability to Afghanistan. Although we do want the nation to be at peace, we do not want to turn it into a flourishing Democratic state. When the president laid out his new plan he made it very clear that success would come when we have the ability to disrupt and defeat al-Qaeda. “We are not going to kill our way out of this war” says Lieut. Colonel Brett Jenkinson. When a solder dies another takes his place. They have learned not to let al-Qaeda get a foothold in Afghanistan. We are now committed to this war there is no backing out. Here success is not measured by the amount of territory we