apparently think it's ok to put our ground forces in harms way instead of continuing to soften the enemy just for the sake of being able to claim a quick victory. One must be careful. If one softens up the enemy for too long they will eventually end up hardening them. Sooner or later ground forces will have to be put in harms way, and beleive it or not a one, two, three knock-out blow using all available resources is most probably the least expensive way in terms of saving lives to go.
Frankly I doubt that they should even be bombing at the moment. Why bother unless the goal is not to get rid of the taliban, or if to get rid of them then to do it by using the rebels as a surrogate force. Better to wait till all the forces are organized, and preped and go for a lightning strike. If the taliban want to hide in the hills let 'em. Like the muslims faced with the crusaders' castles, they decided to make them useless by merely going around them. Let the taliban stay in their caves and while the're there their native afghan enemies can set up house. The US troops can withdraw and leave the rebels in a possition of power and with russian backing pick the taliban off one by one.
I will still go with the opinion that we do not want our people in harms way if it can be avoided and not until we are ready to crush them. I'll go with the opinion of our folks who are paid to make these decisions and have faith they will make the right ones.
Well it seems clear to me from the events of the last few days that as I assumed the good old USA was doing things right. I guess what has been unbelievable to me is how short of an attention span some people have. Just over 2 months ago we were attacked with no warning. In the 64 or so days since then we organized our forces, built cooperation with many parts of the world, moved our forces into position and were instrumental in routing the Taliban without putting our people in harms way very much. Sounds like a fast operation to me and not the least bit necessary to have put large amount of ground troops in harms way.
Way to go USA!