I just happen to have finished reading Col. Hackworth's 'About Face', and it just seems the exact same scenario has played out here as in Vietnam. Corrupt, venal locals, entirely unwilling and incapable of fighting without US forces and US air power. Population that is at best ambivalent about which side is worse. Americans fighting the wrong war and using the wrong tactics again, outside of SF... Really, should have just got in with SF and killed all the bad guys, and got out. There is no country here to reform or rebuild. Just needs to be fenced in...
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