We will not do this but a more “ruthless or nasty” approach might be called for.
Don't want to hear from the just “nukem” crowd or any other “magic weapon” approach.
Starting to starve or otherwise eliminate the population by other means and letting then know that we will not stop till THEY kill the Taliban or AL Queda might produce results.
Will not happen.
So we either get out or prepare to spends decades, lives and money there.
Currently, wee're fighting six or seven (or eight) different factions in Afghanistan.
The only faction we truly have a beef with is the Taliban -- because they harbored al-Qaeda.
I say:
a. Pay off every warlord in the region.
b. Make it clear there is a bounty on every Taliban head.
c. Exterminate the remaining Taliban. Show no mercy.
d. Declare victory and leave.
Our point will have been made: harbor al-Qaeda or anybody else who has offensive aspirations against the United States...and you will be exterminated. Without mercy.
If we have to, we will come back and do it again.
They'll get the message.
>So we either get out or prepare to spends decades, lives and money there.
Obama will opt for the worst of both worlds: spends decades, lives, and money there, then get out when it inevitably turns into Grozny on steroids to the power of Tet on crack.