“Kill one and ten more step up. This “victory” will be as effective in the long term as the rest. Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for a reason”
Our technology to indentify / kill the slime at standoff distance will continue to improve, theirs will not. Difficult but not a hopeless situation.
We fight civilized like.
Perhaps if the Chinese were turned loose, they could see fit to, as Genghis Khan did, kill every male taller than a cartwheel.
They could then replace all those missing Chinese women lost to the one-child policy with Afghani women.
And have some lebenstraum...