[truth_seeker]

It would seem our strategy is to bomb the Taliban/al-Qaeda, until they are so weakened that the local opposition can defeat them. It continues to sound, however, that the locals "aren't yet ready."

I've read that in WWII the Germans were essentially defeated by Russian soldiers, dying in the millions, and US industrial/military output. Same scenario planned here, but using the local opposition to spend the necessary blood? Are the locals willing, and able?

[Zeroisanumber]

Maybe willing, I don't know about able.