You want to win in Afghanistan? You’ll have to kill everyone. Then return every 5 years to do it again.
Why haven’t we? Both a bit of sarcasm and truth. Anyone that raises a weapon at us should be dead. Same with Islamic terrorists anyone. Time to just eradicate this evil. Loose our technology, such as UAV to kill anything that moves and is carrying a weapon.
I see you are a realist about Afghanistan.
We should have left after the punitive expedition phase and never started the meals on wheels phase. We should have been out by, say, 2004.
“You’ll have to kill everyone. Then return every 5 years to do it again.”
IIRC, the Russians were a lot harder on the Afghanis than we were. They had no reservations about carpet-bombing a village that they thought they were fired upon from.
But in the great scheme of things, it didn’t work. The Afghanis just hardened their resolve. It was like “What the hell do we care if we die?”