Afghanistan should be a case study for "go in, blow shit up, kill bad guys, leave and let them pick up the pieces."
You are correct in your "we have to do SOMETHING!" mentality we had in the aftermath.
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Threads like this make me miss Kalashnikev
Thankfully we’re still there protecting both Saudi and Israeli interests. Small miracles and all that.
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Came to post basically this. How do you win a war in which "winning" has not, and never was defined? Short answer is that you don't, you just burn through blood and treasure with no end in sight. This is like page one Sun Tzu shit. Day by day this is turning me into one of the tinfoil hat, military industrial conspiracy, hardline anti-war libertarians that I used to chuckle at.
I keep thinking back to the end of the Iraq war. I was there for the invasion. What the US did during the invasion I am still amazed at. We steamrolled the Iraqi’s. But once we got to Baghdad even my 21 year old Lance Corporal ass could see that the leadership had no plan on what to do once the government fell. We had a real chance in early 2001 to do something with Iraq. I can’t speak for Afghanistan, I never got a trip over there.