PING!
“Bin Laden is dead, but the Taliban, once nearly vanquished, continue to replenish their forces.”
Of course the Pittsburgh Post Gaz6ette doesn’t care who ran foreign policy between 2009 & 2016. Nope. Can’t do that.
I understand that originally we wanted the guy that brought down the towers, but what are we trying to do now.
If our geniuses can't figure it out after 20 years, it's time to nuke'm and call it a day for 10,000 years until the glass cools and the radioactivity is passed.
We should leave Afganistan but make sure that everyone has a sat. cellphone. Our intel could monitor all calls. Anyone would be able to call in the location of Taliban leaders in real time. We could then assassinate them one by one.
WE are the losers.
We can’t fix Afghanistan without also fixing the pest-hole next door - Pakistan. And we can’t fix Pakistan, either. The US can’t fix all the problems of the world. We got Bin Laden, and we can tell Pakistan that if they don’t stop sponsoring the Taliban they can forget about sucking on Uncle Sam’s teat. That’s the best we can do - we can’t go on wasting more American blood and money. Bring the troops home and the hell with Afghanistan.
Honestly, I have wondered for years ... what is our end goal in Afghanistan? Is the plan just to stay indefinitely, fighting a war of attrition, and keeping the Taliban from returning to power? If so, say so. Otherwise, the only alternative I see is to start at one end of the country and work to the other, killing everything in between.
P.S. Ali Villanueva graduated The Academy two years ahead of Rummyfan Jr. He played wide receiver while at West Point.
We can’t get a “do-over” when it comes to “war” (for which we never declared since WWII). 9/11 “War on Terror” is a complete waste. Islam has won. Imagine Nazi in the same result as a result of WWII.
“No good solution exists for ending the conflict..”
Wrong. We could end it tomorrow. We simply lack the will to do it.
L