Donald Trump once called the US occupation in Afghanistan “futile.” Now he wants to win it.

In a national address from Fort Myer military base in Arlington, Virginia, Trump doubled down on the sixteen-year long US occupation, insisting “our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome.”

For all the time and money the United States has spent in Afghanistan — sixteen years and an estimated $841 billion — it is clear that an end to US involvement is no closer. The Afghan government “barely controls half its country, hundreds of thousands have fled their homes due to conflict and opium production is at a historic high in Afghanistan,” according to a January 2017 report from the special inspector general for SIGAR Afghanistan Reconstruction.