Ernest Tucker said:
FriscoKid said:
Politician fails to recognize that it was always the Talibans country. You have to negotiate an orderly exit. Biden let it all fall apart. Cheney would want us to stay another 20 years to root out the taliban
We could have done it in the 20 years we were there, but what is required to do so is something this country does not have the guts to do. It would be a very dirty, very bloody business that would have resulted in a lot of dead Taliban, but also a lot of civilian casualties. We basically would have had to run a modern day version of the Phoenix Program to root out and eliminate all Taliban, their supporters, and sympathizers.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill