Perhaps they would have killed more had they faced up with us and fought us man-to-man...but one will never know - since they used children and women to carry out their attacks, plant their roadside IED’s, and used our sense of value towards LIFE - not DEATH - to kill the number of military and civilian personal security that they did...no, it’s not a head-scratcher...it’s an Islamic insurgency - that’s what they do...cowards using innocence to conduct their attacks.
Just like their self-proclaimed messenger of Allah - they are just “same-same” as Arabs say...
And this was different from the way the Taliban operated?