BTW, what is your definition of "win?"
Killing the enemy and making their leaders surrender. Is there some other definition?
Her whole point is that the “kill civilians = make enemies” chant is wrong, since you will end up killing civilans anyway, although perhaps in a more drawn out way, but you will also risk losing your advantage if you drag it out. That’s one of the facts of war, like it or not.
But now that I realize that your position is the same as Bambi’s (”we’re not looking for victory”), I guess I understand where you’re coming from and why you didn’t like her analysis.
If civilians are killed we make enemies.
This is what our smartest in the Pentagon are saying. It is laughable. We are in a war, a WAR. Civilians always get killed in a WAR. Everyone except the PC sensitized and nuetered understands and accepts this.
We will make enemies by not killing the bad guys and then leaving in two years. When the taliban walk back in, every single civilian will hate our guts because.....
for fear of accidentally killing civilians we purposely did not kill the Taliban.
The Afghan people understand war. Too bad the Pentagon doesn’t anymore.
Time is not on our side