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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
There's nothing to finish... or, rather, it can't be finished. The "war on terror" is the true third World War and it will be perpetual, or at least cyclical in an ever-worsening fashion, until we all lose. These conflicts needed to be "fought smarter" in the first place. It's too late now.
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At a guess.I would think that after Osama was taken out and after realising that the Taliban are actually unbeatable,The goal would've been to weaken them to such an extent that the Afghan forces can keep the villages,Towns and Cities from falling back under their control.I wonder if this objective was actually completed.The fact that the US and UK governments set themselves a deadline of 2014 to finish operations there and pull the majority of troops out makes me doubt that it was.I don't think that deadlines could be set for such a difficult task,It makes me think that we just decided to pull out no matter what the state of the Taliban is now.If they regain power,It seems like such a waste,Specially since OBL was actually killed in Pakistan by special forces and was there for god knows how long while our soldiers were trading blows with the Taliban in Afghan.
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