The point you are missing RGJ, is that this whole quagmire that the Coalition are sinking in is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The coalition is as much part of the problem, as opposed to the solution, and 10 years of little conclusion is testament to that.
The more desperate men fallen on hard times that you kill in the name of building a better Afghanistan, the less support the coalition and the corrupt Government that it props up has.
And the more AQ/Taliban locally recruited Canon Fodder you kill, the stronger their resolve and support becomes whilst you do very little impact to the core network of those organisations.
The problem with the current strategy is that it's very much like trying to dry out a shallow bath with a hair dryer. The bath being Afghanistan, the water representing Taliban influence, and the hair dryer being the application of Coalition military might. You may be able to create small dry patches here and there with the right concentration of power and hot air blasting the water aside, but as soon as you disengage the trigger of the hair dryer, the water will inevitably refill the bath.
Now keeping that analogy in mind, would you continue to blast away with the hair dryer, in the hope that eventually you'll dry up all the water, at your own energy expense? Or would you just pull the plug?
The more desperate men fallen on hard times that you kill in the name of building a better Afghanistan, the less support the coalition and the corrupt Government that it props up has.
And the more AQ/Taliban locally recruited Canon Fodder you kill, the stronger their resolve and support becomes whilst you do very little impact to the core network of those organisations.
The problem with the current strategy is that it's very much like trying to dry out a shallow bath with a hair dryer. The bath being Afghanistan, the water representing Taliban influence, and the hair dryer being the application of Coalition military might. You may be able to create small dry patches here and there with the right concentration of power and hot air blasting the water aside, but as soon as you disengage the trigger of the hair dryer, the water will inevitably refill the bath.
Now keeping that analogy in mind, would you continue to blast away with the hair dryer, in the hope that eventually you'll dry up all the water, at your own energy expense? Or would you just pull the plug?
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