Apparently a scholar of history is required. To have lost implies that we won.
Perhaps we won because we drove AQ away but we did not win against the Taliban. Absent genocide, such a large part of the population can not be eliminated nor can their religious beliefs be destroyed
AQ was merely chased away and still persists.
At best, and the likely outcome, the Taliban will not take control of all the government and all the territory.
We should have taken a lesson from the Russians, they got out of there KNOWING it was a lost cause.
We should have taken a lesson from the Russians, they got out of there KNOWING it was a lost cause.