if that were the case, the taliban would not be rounding up young men, who have no training or weapons and who have to be fed, from their homes, which they are doing. they're happy to have cannon fodder. and i think it's pretty unlikely that this crowd will all be taken to shake hands with osama or zoom-zoom. no, icing their sorry butts one foot inside the border would send a far more meaningful message to the taliban.
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if that were the case, the taliban would not be rounding up young men, who have no training or weapons and who have to be fed, from their homes, which they are doing. they're happy to have cannon fodder. The Taliban are desperate, but that doesn't mean they're smart or that they understand how to combat U.S. military forces. Untrained cannon fodder will not be militarily effective. It's not as though we lacked enough planes or bombs or ammunition to kill as many of them as the Taliban are able to throw into the battle. As it is, I'd much prefer that we kill Pakistani volunteers than press-gang conscripts.