Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:21 am by cornbinder89
Pentagon papers redux, so sad, we haven't learn that lesson yet.
While I feel we had to respond in some way after 9-11, we are where the USSR was decades earlier. It is a fiercely tribal country, and tribe matters more than some government set up in a city somewhere. Central government is just not important to them, how they survive at the local level is, if that means going along with the Taliban than so be it. We can never win that fight, as it is ever changing. Any country that has been in constant war for over 20 years, you are not going to win the "hearts and minds" of the people, they just want the killing to stop.