You had better be careful. Whenever we cut and run, it makes it that much harder for us to succeed in the future.
i admit cut and run may not be the best solution for the future but what alternative do “we” really have in afghanistan right now? and more important how do we succeed in Afghanistan anyway? right now the troops are fighting the Taliban, Local Warlords... and for what? the government we protect right now (from the Taliban) just passed a law
that you are allowed to legal starve your wife if she refuses sex for example.Or Do you know how frustrating it is (i have been “gunner” behind “my” cal. 50 in an APC) to drive around and watch people working on the Poppy fields (which you are not even allowed to enter let alone to destroy) knowing that the drugs will be used to kill our kids at home and the money from that will be used to buy weapons to shoot at you here. because both the Taliban and the government are big in the drug buissness. that people “vote” for the guy (mostly local drug lords) who is able to pay them the most or just for every one their local clan elder desides. btw. the day we leave this “democrazy” will implode anyway because Aghanistan is a tribal society.
and i could go on and on.So this is for what the troops have to die for?
That’s kind of the point of my Post #18. We always seem to tie our own hands with this self defeating nonsense.
The way you win wars is you kill & exhaust the enemy until he has no more will to resist. Somewhere along the line we forgot that in the 20th Century. If we used our overwhelming firepower, we could win the war quickly, but it would not be pretty. Instead, we create these fairy tell policies for the sake of good PR. In short, we care more about being liked & PR than victory. Its the loser who decides when the war is over—not the winner.