and the end point for this exercise is?
When the US decided to go into Afganistan nearly two decades ago, the goal was clear a simple: destroy Taliban, get Osama, and "free" the country to become a mini-America.
Sixteen years, trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of american and hundreds of thousands of afgani deaths later, the taliban are still very much in evidence, stronger than ever. ObL is dead and gone, but the bunch which replaced him is nastier and deadlier than he ever was. And the America is now bombing and killing people with drones in nearly every country in the middle east and north africa, with no end in sight. There is also much less good will towards the US and the "developed" countries in the world than there was 20 years ago.
Could it be that this strategy is not working, and needs to be rethought?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
