How to win in Afghanistan
1. Get rid of Karzai as he sanctions corruption.
2. Eliminate any deadline for withdrawal of troops
3. Eliminate the foolish ROE that Obama used to hamstring our troops
4. Replace the tribal mentality with a viable and sustainable representative government like the one we started in Iraq
5. Educate the populace
6. Train and equip Afghanis to hold and secure their own country
7. Develop the mineral resources of Afghanistan to replace the drug trade
8. Win over the hearts and minds of the Afghani people
9. Hold free and fair elections
10, Build and maintain a basic infrastructure
In other words, do what it takjes to nation build starting from the ground up and the grass roots.
8. Win over the hearts and minds of the Afghani people
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Moslems have neither.
or we could have just gone in there and nuked them back to the stoneage and then left. it wold serve as a much more effective warning to anyone else who wanted to mess with us
The Soviets didn’t have ROE and they lost. That gimmick won’t perform a miracle.
It may be possible to 'nation build' where there has never been a singular nation. Or it may not.
But do you really want to spend more US lives & treasure building another unified muslim nation?