Can Trump Solve Afghanistan? A Brief History of Why US Doesn't Want To Lose, But May Never Win

"I think people tend to forget that Afghanistan didn’t begin in 2001. The actual conflict we’ve seen has been a kind of rolling, decades of conflict, rather than 2001 up until the current period," U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies senior fellow Emily Winterbotham told Newsweek.