We fought the taleban back within about 8 weeks. We won that war, but once again lost the peace. All this nation-building bullshiite wasn’t worth a penny from us nor a minute of our time.
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I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
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RE: We won that war, but once again lost the peace.
OK, the solution then is to bomb their place to hell and just leave, right?
But they, we did not get Osama Bin Ladin then ( which was out stated goal ). It took another 10 years to kill him and it was not even done in Afghanistan.