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To: LindyBill who wrote (609857)	10/3/2016 4:17:24 AM
From: unclewest	6 Recommendations of 793906

They certainly had a myriad of leadership issues. IMO Another key reason the Northern Alliance eventually failed is we backed off from curtailing heroin production. Money rules everywhere even in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. We started out fine with just A Teams,,,BUT the key reason for failure was discussed here on SI before we attempted to enlarge our invasion. "Afghanistan has no seaport." The culprit was a gross miss by the Pentagon perfumed princes who said we could supply and resupply a substantial US Military presence in Afghanistan by air. That was a huge and extremely expensive miss, that led to failure. Even with ready access to seaports, American forces are still not prepared to fight the generational wars that we keep getting embroiled in. If we keep doing what we are doing, we are going to keep getting what we are getting. If we want to change what we are getting, we must change what we are doing. IMO, there is only one military solution even possible then or now. Separate US Special Forces from DOD and let them handle the long wars by recruiting, training, and supplying locales to provide their own security.

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