Lloyd Austin actually said...

the government has to be accommodating to both the Sunni and the Kurd population, and we have to increasingly get the Sunnis involved.

We are working as an international coalition to staunch the flow of foreign fighters to the battlefield...

I think a zero option would be very problematic for the country of Afghanistan.

The smaller you get, the greater the risk is to the mission, and the greater the risk to the force.