No. Had we left at that point it would have been a win, but we decided to stay and make a show of democracy and nation building.
Thing is, while I still maintain we could win if we wanted to, it would really ruin us on the world stage and require a huge expansion of our efforts. Huge like reinstate the draft and re-purpose our economy in a declared war type huge. Huge like post world war 2 Marshall plan reeducation camps huge. It would stretch far beyond the borders of Afghanistan. Kill, capture or co-opt a generation. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Afghanistan is winnable, we just don't have the will or the intestinal > > fortitude to do what it would take. > > Knowing the history of war there before we went in it I can't imagine > the confidence of winning was that high. I figured the thought was to > go in to make and example, teach some lessons and wipe out as many > people involved as possible. If by luck it was a win that would have > been a bonus. > > > > I all honestly, there was a point after teh Taliban fell, when there were > > only a very few troops in the country, that we had basically won, and > could > > have left to allow them to build there own country. It would have led > to a > > civil war, but that's going to happen anyway. > > So is it still a win? > > > Two majors things hamstrung us early on in Afghanistan. The invasion of > > Iraq, and removing operational control from SOCOM and giving in to big > Army > > and now NATO. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351237 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
