If 100,000 troops couldn't get peace how will well under 10% get any result? These must be the same generals that kept promising President Obama " just another 3 years and we can turn the country around" it was BS then and it's BS now. Most of that country wants to live in the 8 th century with 21 century weapons..So let them, the Taliban at least put a stop to the cultivation of opium, 90 some % that ends up in the USA. On this basis whom is smarter us or the Taliban?
WE can give our own people healthcare instead of blowing up a tribal society, at the current rate not only Australia but Afganistan will have better education and healthcare than we do, "we have met the enemy and he is us" POGO