[Ryzorian]

Because politicians won't let the military use what it has in it's arsenal. They are too Mamby Pamby about it. Those "insurgents" wouldn't be alive now if we were allowed to really go after them, and we dont need nukes to do it either. I'm ex military, my brother serves currently, we have conventional weapons that would make thier blood turn cold if they knew we got the go ahead to deploy them.

The US should go back to doing what we did early in Afganistan, what drove the Taliban out in a few months. If they hid in a mountain cave, we just collapsed the top of the mountain onto them. If they hid in a hospital... we blew it up, if they hid in a school... we blew it up, if they hid in a mosque... we blew it up. We used fuel air bombs that not only destroyed bunkers, it sucked the oxygen out of an entire area. That's why Osama's own son left him early in the fight, cause he was sure the US was out to kill them all.

We have the weapons, and equipment, we know the tactics that work. It's Washington that stoped it, it's like the left hand is afraid of what the right hand is doing. Washington is so concerned about civilian casualties, befriending the "Afganistani's and "training them" to take care of themselves... blah blah blah, that it's gumming up the whole operation.



I think that is wasted effort, and pulls resources away from killing jihadi's, wich is the orginal mission to begin with. We got overly sidetracked with things that ultimately won't help anybody, in some vain atempt to make us look like the good guy.

Honestly, we aren't there to be the good guy, we are there to be the strong guy that kills jihadi's, so they cease to exist as a viable threat.This isn't a love fest, it's a war, and war's are ugly.