When Do We Leave?

On Afghanistan, I wrote that  "Obama's pledge to start withdrawing troops in 2011 is now kaput ... Once Washington has decided to occupy a country, it will occupy it for ever." Max Boot says I was battling a strawman:

I hope Andrew is right — not because I or anyone else is in favor of
perpetually occupying Afghanistan (talk about a straw man!) — but
because the only way to prevail is to show the will to stay in the long
run.

My point is not that Max wants to stay there forever but that the...