was unsustainable politically,

Although the additional US forces achieved successes on the battlefield, the entire campaign was weakened by declaring it temporary at the onset, meaning the enemy could simply wait for the Americans to leave. Because an indefinite US presence was unsustainable politically, some policymakers believed that publicly announcing this deadline (which was ultimately delayed) was necessary to pressure our Afghan allies to take over the war. However, putting aside the controversy over the announcement itself, if US forces were needed to prop up a faltering Afghan army, it suggested deeper problems in the war effort beyond numbers of troops. (It is relevant to recall that the first deployment of conventional US forces to South Vietnam in March 1965 took place because of the assessment that the Vietnamese army needed help in combating the communist insurgency.) สล็อต เว็บตรง