Yes, I did read the article.
“Since those first months, succeeding elements of Green Berets have led the way in pushing back the Taliban insurgents and establishing Afghan forces sufficient to carry the fight into the future. As Operation Enduring Freedom ends and U.S. forces draw down, the Green Berets will continue to bolster the Afghan forces.”
The US military did their best to take out the Taliban, but the Taliban are doing very, very well for themselves these days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/world/asia/for-the-taliban-modest-success-in-battle-but-opium-trade-and-illicit-businesses-boom.html?_r=0
What our SF guys did was for nothing but a hollow victory.
It sure would be nice if our military was committed to winning wars and conflicts.
But I guess it’s better to bribe the enemy than to spend that money on war fighting them.
SF is doing what it does best, teaching the Afghans to fight for themselves, just as many think that the green berets were winning in Vietnam, before the democrats sent in the Army and Marines.