[bigheadfred]

That is one of the problems. They never will like us. So to put more boots on the ground would have solved nothing. Unless you resorted to methods that would have made Vlad the Impaler look like a mere piker. That would have instilled fear. Or at least some respect. When they found the enemy, they should have killed the enemy. EVERY time.

I made me a new pic today.

[SoldierDad]

When I suggest we needed more boots on the ground it was not a suggesting for nation building. We fought WWII the correct way to fight a war - total and complete destruction of the enemy’s ability and will to fight. There is NO other way to fight a war. There is NO such thing as fighting a “kinder, more gentler” war. I would have no problem with a complete anhilation of Islam.