“Once you do end up with U.S. personnel on the ground, it becomes very tricky to pull them out because of the sunk-cost argument—once you’ve invested a certain amount, we have to keep going to achieve some kind of objective,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities.
“Things go wrong, objectives change and sometimes the U.S. ends up getting sucked in deeper,” she said.
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