We killed a lot of ISIS/ALQaeda and Taliban leaders/subleaders last week. That is going to hurt since they included a “governor” of Helmand Province, the ISIS leaders for it, and some Taliban leaders in several provinces.
Our intelligence is getting better and our missiles more accurate.
That, in my book, is a major PLUS, plus the ROE’s have been changed with the giving of the ground commanders more authority to rewrite the ROE’s to fit their particular situations.
Obama’s hand-behind-the-back treason/ROE is being reversed pretty quickly. Wish that had happened in Nam.
It’s not possible to defeat the Taliban or ISIS because they are Islam. Unless Islam is destroyed, then nothing else the US does matters. Another group will spring up with a different name, but it’s all Islam. The real threat is that we have brought Muslims here.
Ban Islam, deport Muslims, bring US troops home and put on our borders, institute a “pet the pig” requirement to board a plane on enter a western nation. Let the Muslim sects kill each other in their own rotten countries. Get US out! No more fighting for any Muslim sect, because they all hate us.
You’re simply delusional. No change in ROE, no better intel, no increase in missile accuracy, no increase of troop levels, no new “kill” in the whack a mole game will make Afghanistan into a normal functioning nation.
This war is designed to be permanent and to funnel money to the chosen ones. There is no “victory” possible there. This war has already lasted 4 times as long as WWII, and we are no closer to a “win” than 6 months after we went there.
We are actually fighting enemies who were infants when the war began. We could stay another 16 years and it would be no different than today.
Who wants to be the last to die for a mistake?