Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
The problem with your pie in the sky assertion is one word. I bolded it for you.
Nothing is as easy as you think it is.
It would have been a lot easier than $2 trillion, thousands of lives lost and pretty much no further forward than 2001 aside from a lot of wealthy US citizens who made millions off Uncle Sam while other US Citizens paid the ultimate price. (I'm ignoring the citizens off other countrys who made millions from it........... they scum as well.)
Get the paymasters and stop the stuff going in there would have been a start, a lot more would have followed suit.
Taliban came to power in 1990's because they brought order from the chaos of CIA toppling Afghani Govt, that is why people supported them not because a belief in their way. Stop the goodies going in and out and see the outcome.
Course taking on Pakistan / Saudi Arabia / UAE whpo recognised the Taliban Govt would have upset some people making millions but in 2001 US post 9/11 had the goodwill of the world and pissed it away.