Iraq was just a replay of what happened in Afghanistan and didn't work. If the people want the taliban let them have taliban, if they don't then let them do the work, same as Iraq, we should have gotten rid of the top commanders that were hiding Al Queida, and let the rest do their own thing, and borab the shit out of them again if shit stirs up again. Same shit si going to happen when we leave, whenever that is. Escalating the conflict and sending in 60k more troops to protect a bunch of mud hut villiages is an extension of the previous stupidity, and enough to grant him current ownership of this shit show