Taking the Easiest Solution, Take It Out

For all those powers, either the easiest solution, or the one that they had no control over any way, was the us. Taken out, now this becomes something that the regional players have to iron out for themselves. And who knows how long the taliban will be around. Blowback is an equal opportunity force. It's positively newtonian when you think about it. For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.