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The Taliban are barely literate mountain dwellers armed with little more than Soviet era Kalasnikovs and home-made bombs.
They may not know how to read but they have been at war all of their lives and they are probably average age in the mid to late thirties while our soldiers were probably in school a couple of years ago and average age is early to mid twenties.

We have training and equipment, they have maturity, experience, and home field advantage. Many of these people were born to fight. You can't defeat a way of life, you can only eradicate it.