it is the Taliban who are showing the grit and fighting spirit
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They’re fighting for 72 virgins and paradise. It’s not hard to find recruits, when that’s the reward for fighting and dying.
The British, are fighting to go home to their wives, or worse.
You’ll eventually run out of unfortunately deluded Muslims looking for 72 virgins. First, the recruits dry up, then those who recruit will be forced to either hide, or go themselves.
If we’re smart, we’ll send missionaries after all the Taliban are cleaned up.
The Allies have now been fighting in Afghanistan longer than the Soviets did yet still the deluded virgin seekers keep fighting back. We can dress this up any which way we want but there is something fundamentally wrong about how that war is being fought.
Why after nearly ten years are we still reading about “victories” such as this in Afghanistan? With so many impressive victories like this one you’d have thought Nato could have won the war years ago.
Hanging on until such time as the Taliban give up on Islam doesn’t seem to me to be a winning strategy.
The Old Western Civilization would send missionaries with the soldiers. But now its unPC to do that. One of our fatal weaknesses, IMHO.