This_person
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I'll buy being there too long, kind of. We "beat" the Taliban in terms of their power structure over the country. But, much like the British in our revolutionary war being unprepared for our fighting style, and our being unprepared for the Vietnamese fighting style, we're unprepared for the current fighting style. They say you always fight the last war, until you figure out the new one. We're still trying to figure out how to take a huge, technologically advanced army and beat gangs of thugs.:shrug: Since we've been there this long, haven't beaten the Taliban, haven't stopped the opium trade, and most important haven't turned OBL into an unrecognizable puddle....
I wouldn't call it one of his worst mistakes, but it's nothing to brag about, either.
I don't understand why we didn't/don't burn the poppy fields, though. You've definately got me on that one.
As far as OBL, I think he's been neutralized, just not caught. Who knows, he may be dead and we just don't know it yet. We tried to let the "coalition" get him, and failed. I'll take that hit, too.