Why West Lost Afghan War

[JasonC]

To KKR - there has never been any society in human history that wasn't "assailed from within" by outright treason, by partisan political games, and by human immorality and lethargy. And there never will be. Yet gosh, some states have won wars nevertheless.

For the US in particular, you can't name a war unmarred by treasonous partisan conduct on the homefront, by somebody or other. With something like Nam it is proverbial - but Americans consciously gave atom bombs to Joe Stalin long before that, right after a "good war". I could cite chapter and verse on the subject all day, but there is little point.

We can win the war in Afghanistan simply by deciding not to lose it. Since we can fight there at this level indefinitely, and none of our enemies there have a prayer of defeating us if we decide to, this ought to be obvious. But domestic partisans are more interested in using the situation to score political points than winning anything. All it takes to win is saying "tough toenails" to such self inflicted idiocy.

Nor is it a matter of "strong enemies" from without. They are pathetically weak enemies. Running in fear from enemies so pathetically weak borders on the absurd, and pretending we can't defeat them endlessly is pretending and an interested crock of you know what.