You never hear of sarcasm or something? ***Of course*** we aren’t on the verge of winning. It’s 16 years in, and if we leave, it’ll take about a week for the Taliban to take back over.
The idiots in DC and the Generals keep pretending it’s possible to make a difference there. The truth is that the war is designed to spend about 12 billion a year, and nothing else. Good Marines are being wasted there.
This is no longer protecting us from the next 9/11.
My apologies. That “war” is personal and I’m a bit too grouchy to see any humor in it anymore.