Then, we weren't fighting a mindset, this time we are. They're not going to change... ...Enough. Afghans, Arabs, Syrians, Jordanians, Sunni.. let them kill each other if they want to...
For centuries these primitive tribal, religious revisionist nutcases have indeed been slaughtering each other. But recently they've branched out into the civilised world and begun driving truck bombs into embassies and hotels, flying aeroplanes into tall buildings and exploding themselves in crowded metropolitan transport systems.
The mindset is certainly the root of the problem and sending soldiers into their homelands only firms up their mindset, so what can be done? There are those who believe that their entire misbegotten countries ought to be vapourised in a massive nuclear assault - the west has thousands of megaton sized thermo nukes at its disposal, which is more than enough for the job. Unfortunately Friends of the Earth would object to the pollution.
As for myself, I'm not sure which pollution is the worst - the nuclear kind or the so-called Taliban kind.
Perhaps we might send Islamic Missionaries over there to convert them to the one true faith?