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I hope you don't mind carl's low level opinion if he were in charge of everything.
The first thing would be to require the government of the United States to fully recognize and publicly acknowledge that we cannot resolve this thing unless the Pak Army/ISI butts out. Then we would wholly commit ourselves to making them butt out, short of going into Pakistan militarily. I am inclined to think Omarali50's bluff calling would work, but we have never had the nerve to do even that.
If we could not do both of those things, I would leave Afghanistan ASAP, making provisions for 500,000 to 1,000,000 special entry and permanent US residency visas for all the Afghans who were foolish enough to work closely with us and their families. As for the rest of them, make a special radio broadcast saying "Tough luck for you. Fooled 'em again."
Then after bugging out, I would reduce the size of the Army by 60% (but doubling the size of the Green Berets, only them not the rest of specops) and spend all of the money saved on the Navy and the Air Force.
Finally, after that, I would require that for the next 60 years every single piece of official US gov correspondence having anything at all to do with foreign relations begin with this statement "Do not trust the government of the United States (English speaking nations, heed this also)."
That is what I would do.
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