Do you really believe we invaded afghanistan to save these people? You think we invaded iraq to bring freedom and democracy to the iraqis? Was turning libya and syria into rubble part of our campaign to bring happiness to these people? I guess propaganda does work. "Mission Accomplished".
I assumed he meant you can't save America from the Americans.
You can. As they said in Vietnam, we had to destroy the village in order to save it. If the alternative is an Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, I really do not see what there is to lose.