Finally a "shrinking footprint" we can all agree on

Even Tom Friedman says so

It is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here’s my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, the domestic support, the financial resources or the national interests to justify an enlarged and prolonged nation-building effort in Afghanistan.

I'd actually prefer abandoning the area altogether but some might say "That is outside my brief."