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Originally Posted by Watser?
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This comment at the bottom of the page caught my attention -
I love the picture of the Taliban Army. This "army" has whipped the asses of the world's biggest, best funded and best equipped army in the world.
Ten years and trillions of dollars and they still can't beat that ragtag army of camel jockeys. Kinda makes ya wonder, don't it?
What an a hole. Anyway, in the small parts where he's not busy being full of shite, he does have a valid point. Our Army is not suited to wage protracted counterinsurgency. It's a losing proposition. It just doesn't work, for a number of fairly mundane reasons which are not worth enumerating. Hopefully someday we will understand this, really understand it, deep in our bones, deep enough that we won't forget it again.