It would not be "stable" over IF we had US troops there in great number.
There is no good answer.
The Soviets lost 13,310 dead, and 35,478 wounded by the time they left-a ten year occupation.
They (Soviets) deployed about 109,000 at the peak six years after their initial invasion- (1985), and took four more years before the last of their troops left in 1989. Over a million Afghans were killed over that same time frame.
We're currently at about 65,000 U.S. troops on the ground now, and we have lost, so far, 916 dead, and 4,529 wounded.
There is no good option.
War is hell.
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