[COgamer]

Why are these people still even ABLE to abduct anyone? The Taleban should have been utterly and completely annhilated 6 years ago, when the American people were still angry and would have accepted aggressive tactics.

[Smokin' Joe]

Why are these people still even ABLE to abduct anyone?

Because our MSM, among others, has been all over itself publishing their success stories and helping them recruit fresh meat.

Now they can ransom anyone they can.

[Artemis Webb]

"The Taleban should have been utterly and completely annhilated 6 years ago, when the American people were still angry and would have accepted aggressive tactics."

Could it be because Afghanistan is very mountainous with many large caves? Could it be because the Taliban like to hide among civilians? Could it be because the Taliban likes to hide in Pakistan and re-stage from there? The Taliban are not marching in huge nicely lined up numbers across green open fields.

[VOA]

The Taleban should have been utterly and completely annhilated 6 years ago

In a perfect world.
We would have simultaneously subdued Iraq, Iran and North Korea
in the fall of 2001.

But...political consideration and the weak spines of many civilized
countries prevent that sort of triumph of sanity.

And it even prevented the USA from simply landing sufficient
US forces on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in order to
trap the rats in a killzone in eastern Afghanistan.

This is still not a perfect world.
And that "Kick-@$$" impression of Dubya was not the whole truth
about the man as a leader.