Only because we REFUSED to fight it the proper way. Thanks duh-bya, you weak c--t of a fool. And I won't even get into what the POS after him did.
I agree. The troops have to be given the authority to win the war. This doesn't appear to have been given since WW2.
“Only because we REFUSED to fight it the proper way.”
No, it wasn’t because we didn’t do it right. The USSR of old went in there and didn’t tame that place. You think we could outdo the Soviets in brutality? Not a chance. Or maybe you think we are so decent, so good, so smart that we could have turned the Afghan people into a modern decent people?
Neither is possible. No tactic, force level or weapon will “win” Afghanistan.
The only way to “win” there (what exactly is “winning” there?) is how Alexander the Great won, after many years. He destroyed every village, killed every person and animal and burned them to the ground. Eventually the most powerful “king” swore loyalty and he married the king’s daughter. Then he left and they went back to killing each other.
Americans would never countenance that kind of war. Our best strategy would be to pick tribal leaders to support against their enemies. That how we won initially, by supporting the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. We will never impose a national government there, because the people are loyal to their tribe first, and will never support a government over tribe.