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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Probably an unfair comment.
Hang another predicable L on the US politicians is a better statement.
There is no doubt in my mind that if the Military was able to wage the war they wanted the result would have been different, of course that would also be dependant upon the public’s acceptance of bodybags coming home at a greater rate.
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The only war that would have worked was one where the military killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans, demolished every church and reacted to any resistance with nazi like brutality, killing the whole village for the one IED, and that would only work with a permanent presence in country, it does nothing to 'grow democracy' though.
The nature of the country and the Taliban means no military solution can 'defeat' them as they just go back to their villages or across the mountains to Pakistan and wait you out, the military did defeat the Taliban, they took the country, the Taliban faded into the population and waited until we got bored