At the beginning, the war was aimed at eliminating Al Qaeda, vanquishing the Taliban, and transforming Afghanistan into something resembling a Western-style nation-state. With none of these goals fully achieved, America’s intervention – like every other intervention in Afghanistan’s history – is ending unsatisfactorily.
这场战争的初始目标是清除基地组织，围剿塔利班，并把阿富汗变成类似西方国家的民族国家。这些目标一个也没有完全实现，美国的干预——与历史上其他对阿富汗的干预一样——在未取得令人满意的结果的情况下走向了终结。