Perhaps we could if we were willing to kill 90% of their population and accept casualties of our own in the tens of thousands and borrow several trillion more dollars to do it. Short of that, no, it could not be done it will not be done and only a mad man would do it.
Yes im sure lots of people wanted to kill off 90% of the Japanese also.
They had killed more Americans than the modern day terrorists.
It’s probably good for the long term viability of the US that that idea (killing 90% of a country) did not prevail.
Afghanistan is the same never ending waste.
One of our local female guardsmen got home from Afghanistan this fall. She says we’re building some beautiful highways for them to blow up. As for those poor Afghan women, she says “Screw em” they’re as bad or worse than the men.