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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:What is the current state of Afghanistan? What has the U.S accomplished/not accomplished?
gpt
That's a really complex question, but I'll try and answer it for you.

The US has removed the Taliban from power, although they're still a very dangerous threat for the nation, with an estimated 20000+ members. Since 2001, over 5 million Afghanis who fled the country due to the dangers of living under the Taliban have returned. In 2011, over 8 million Afghani children were attending school (including over 3 million girls) when in 2000, there was barely 1 million attending school (with less than 500k being girls). Health care in the country has improved drastically, with the amounts of lives saved by improved healthcare estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands. US is currently training the Afghani Army to be able to handle it's own domestic and foreign security, so that US/ISAF forces aren't responsible for their protection.

**However**, the Taliban are still a very real threat for the Afghani people, and that's evident by the Taliban being responsible for 75% of the 3000 civilian deaths in 2013. There's still over 2 million refugees in various parts of the world, majority being within Pakistan. Because opium grows so well in Afghanistan, a large number of farmers grow it. US hasn't found a way to convert these farmers to other crops, and doesn't want to just destroy the crops, out of fear the farmers will turn to the Taliban to protect their fields. So as a result, opium production in Afghanistan has increased to the point it now produces some 90% of the world's opium. 

So the people's daily lives have been improved greatly, but there's still **a lot** to be done, and plenty of dangers for the people.