Compressor stall it's not about how much money we have spent or how many troops we committed, the whole bloody thing is/always has been unachievable and unwinnable, the yanks the russians before that and ourselves before that have all shown that this is a country and people that you can not tame/beat, in fact it isn't really even a country but simply a land mass with borders defined only on a map by others.
Pious would you care to elaborate on your "Absolute bo11ocks"
How has our blood, sweat and money in the sand and dust made us any safer?