[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I still think Afghanistan has been mishandled for shortterm reasons. The best long term way to sort the Taliban out and the worst warlords would be to train and arm RAWA (Roughly stands for Afghan's Women's revolutionary association) who have been fighting Sovets and Taliban for years. Aside from deserving support, they are the one group Osama and co can never suborn!

Such an idea is a waste of American resources. One hundred MOABs at select targets including Mosques would have been a huge bargin. We would have made our point. Screw with America and you get living Hell in return. We wouldn't be stuck in a quagmire.

[Androcles]

Nope. That would have been tactically effective but would have created plenty of martyrs, drummed up enemy recruitment and blackened a noble history. Good guys don’t shoot indiscrimantely.

It’s too late now, but the advantage of arming and training groups like RAWA is that it would bring nightmares t every fanatic elsewhere and cause fear that the oppressed 50% of teir nations who are woman are a potential fifth column...