Reply #12: This is exactly what I've been saying for years. Afghanistan cannot be conquered [View All]

[Greyhound]

militarily, the greatest military powers throughout history have learned this lesson the hard way.

OTOH, we can win over the Afghanis by helping them to improve their country and lives. This is how OBL won them in the first place and created the infamous "breeding ground for terrorists".

They do not live they way they do because that is how they want to live. They live that way because it is the only way to live. Send in troops to guard an army of construction equipment and employ an army of Afghanis to use them to build roads and schools, hospitals, sanitation, water, and power facilities.

Do that and we will quickly learn who our real friends are and none of the scum we are currently supporting are among them.

Afghanistan could be what Iraq should have been and for far less blood and money than spending the next decade blowing up rubble will cost.