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Originally Posted by Thor
So the reason America has lost the war in Afghanistan is what then?
The reason why its such a quagmire is the fact its so mountainous, the porous borders, and fanatical religious enemy.
The only way to "win" in situations like this is to use WWII tactics of wiping out entire cities, killing vast amounts of civilians and then setting up immense walled borders and using a vast army to occupy. Even then you would still have a never ending terrorism issue.
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The Afghans aren't generally fanatical any more than any other nation of that education level etc.
They are however possibly the place with the longest tradition of warfare against foreign invaders. Persians, Indians, Imperial Russia, colonial Brits, Soviet Russia... Everybody has ended up regretting they went there.
Relatively speaking the Americans have done quite ok.