With all due respect, but I don't really get the "USA lost the war in Afghanistan" drivel I read everywhere. What so many people don't seem to realize is that the USA decided to retreat themselves because they found it wasn't really worth it anymore. 2,448 American soldiers died while 51,191 Taliban fighters died. Taliban fighters spent most of their time hidden in caves until the Americans decided to retreat. You must ask yourself the question with all those wars the USA supposedly lost - Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc... - how much of their military resources did the USA exactly use? If they would've even used about a tenth of the resources they have at their disposal Vietnam, Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan would've ended up as nothing but scorched earth. That is a fact and I'm not even American.