Here is my take....
1) MASSIVE REBUILDING CONTRACTS TO CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES FOR REPAIRING INFRASTRUCTURE WE BLOW UP.
2) Afghanistan has crazy levels of precious minerals to mine...with over 1,400 mineral occurrences recorded to date, including gold,
copper,
lithium,
uranium, iron ore, cobalt, natural gas and oil. Afghanistan's resources could make it one of the richest mining regions in the world.
The USA is defintely taking advantage of this!
3) Military industrial complex. Keep building bombs and dropping them...and invoice the taxpayer!
4) Poppies. We control the heroin prices around the world...and dont allow too much heroin so the prices drop and much that BIG PHARMA cannot sell as much opiates as it does now.
These are the big 4. All with massive kicksbacks and back scratching to the deep staters involved.
Those are some of the specifics as I see it.
WHAT ARE YOUR SPECIFIC REASONS WE ARE STILL IN AFGHANISTAN AFTER 20 years and will not leave?
2 Pub Presidents....2 Dem Presidents.....and we have no committed timeline!