Afghanistan may never be a modern country and since there is practically no infrastructure, it is basically impossible to mount a modern war against them. You will never be able to defeat the Taliban if they can hide in Pakistan and then come back when we eventually leave.
True. Which means the real target, from the beginning, should have been Pakistan.
“Afghanistan may never be a modern country and since there is practically no infrastructure, it is basically impossible to mount a modern war against them. You will never be able to defeat the Taliban if they can hide in Pakistan and then come back when we eventually leave.”
We seem to have tried the long, slow hopeful approach of winning their hearts and minds.
We haven’t tried killing, and killing, until they ALL are dead or give up.
Ten years and no bin Laden is unacceptable with Pakistan telling us how much we can try going after bin Laden, and not really doing much themselves.
And Karzai scolding us, over and over.