An interesting lesson in asymmetric warfare. A group of illiterate fanatics with AK’s can successfully make a superpower change its policy.
Academic curiosity aside, our boys deserve better, OBL is dead, send them home. Let Afghan boys die for Afghanistan.
>> A group of illiterate fanatics with AKs can successfully make a superpower change its policy.
Obama is not a superpower.
Not until enough of the adult male Pashtun/Pathan population is dead, that the remainder will never again be a threat to take the country over, as they did 20 years ago.
Whatever government we leave behind has got to be committed to keeping the Pathans bottled up in their mountains and out of the cities, so that Al-Q'aeda will not be able to find a lodgement in Afghanistan like the one they got before by playing on the religious hatreds of the Pathans.