We could easily just reduce the whole area to rubble, but that wouldn't look good from an international diplomacy standpoint. So we act like that we're trying to rebuild their country. It will never work (Muslims only understand submission via unrelenting force), but Afghans are still in the stone age and it doesn't take a lot of money to shoot a few bullets into some retarded inbred with a rusty scimitar. We're not going to leave, Ahmed. That entire shithole can be pinned down with two faggots with a few dozen drones.