Retired Gen. David Petraeus says he thinks the U.S. will regret withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. “You have seen the Taliban take dozens of districts in recent weeks. It appears that, that kind of psychological element that is so important with soldiers, that they know that someone is coming to the rescue…they seem to be doubting that. Whenever that happens then you start to see soldiers not fight, desert, what have you, and we’ve seen that in dozen of districts just in recent month. As you’ll recall me saying very early on, I fear that we’re cosigning Afghanistan to a civil war, and again, that seems to be materializing sooner than I had even feared it would.”
