Every time a lib says something like this to me I remind them of the Taliban’s success in resisting both the Soviet military and the US military. Both countries tried for decades to bring them to heel. Unsuccessfully.
A determined guerilla army is very difficult to defeat unless you are willing to totally decimate the entire country as we did to win in WWII.
You are right. I once asked my father what he thought about dropping the bombs over Japan.
He said, “It saved American lives.”
My father and I would watch The World at War every Sunday night.
When he was 9, he would race downstairs to get the newspaper, to see what was happening in the war. :)
Still miss him every day.
You are correct @ post 64.
However, I don’t think they would have any problem at all waging total war against those of us who disagree with them.
Remember, we were in the sandbox to “help them”.
There are many on the fringe left who do not view you and I with the same compassion.
I don’t know that we-ever mounted a full on scale offensive to wipe out the bad guys completely in that Afghanistann...I mean everything all in. We set up defensive bases while we tried to build up and train and equip the feckless “national army”(with half of them spying for the Taliban)to defend the most moderate of the extremist leaders we felt we could trust only half the time.
I know the words sound twisted but I believe that is the situation in Afghanistan. They are like a nation of Tasmanian Devils, quick to turn on one another and if one didn’t have anyone to shoot, you shoot your own uncle just because he looked at you crosseyed! Even Pakistani’s have issues with the spillovers of Taliban on their borders and Pakistan is no great country itself. You think the Pakistanis want the Americans to leave Afghanistan? It means the Taliban will start going after Pakistan hard. Pakistan might have to use nukes, not on India but on Taliban redoubts!(but I’d bet the Taliban would get the message while choking on fall-out)