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Originally Posted by SallyRand
With all due repsect, no country has ever fought a successful war in Afghanistan and if the USA was serious about destroying whatever is being fought there, such a "war" would be over with quickly. In short, a series of surgical strikes would simply take out every known or suspected position held by the targets.
The "war" in Afghanistan is not about terrorism. It is about oil, pipelines, opium and political influence.
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I think the last guy to win a war there, was Alexander the Great and he didn't stay long, he was on his way to India.
Afghanistan has been the graveyard of the British, Russians and now combined forces of NATO.
It's a collection of tribes that are as backward as they can be. The warlords run different regions. It's wedged between Iran, Pakistan and a few more failed Islamic States.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
After the Americans spent billions to help the Afghans defeat the Russians they should of spent millions on hospitals, schools and basic infrastructure. It would of been a long hard tough job to bring them up to a civilised modern country. But invading and occupying a country does nothing but breed more hate.
The soldiers that remain in Afghanistan to teach and arm the Afghan Army will be teaching and arming the future Taliban Army. If they're not already doing it.
Or do you think the only Taliban in the Afghan Army are the ones who kill NATO troops in a suicide mission?