On April 13 President Biden announced  his plan to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Currently there are approximately 3,500 American troops in Afghanistan.

With no consensus at home on the decision to withdraw US troops, Afghanistan remains a Grave of Empires. True to Thomas Jefferson's formulation that most wars end with the restoration of the status quo ante bellum (things go right back to the way things were before all the loss of blood and treasure). 

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