Major military action is over. We should be in a police role. If our troops are calling in air strikes, then either
A) we are too lazy to send in ground troops
B) the situation is not safe for ground troops

It would be unacceptable to call in air strikes for a bank robbery in Salt Lake City. Air strikes are over-used in Afghanistan and Iraq, and I suspect that is why they are starting to raise their voices and asking us to leave.

The solution is simple, just tell the Afganistan government that they should pass a resolution that as long as Taliban or Insurgent groups continue to hide among their families, the NATO forces are authorized to attack them.
If the government announces the authorization on tv, radio and in all of the papers we will see a more visible enemy.

Old Military Guy: where has bombing people made people like those bombing them? Napalm did little to make Vietnamese like us.

This is why the term asymmetrical war is used. We can win all the battles and loose the war.

One terrorist act in America will outweigh all the terrorist we have killed.

I can't print what my friends called the Vietnamese they were defending here. I heard the war tales about shooting water buffalo. How would you feel about soldiers that killed your greatest source of wealth for amusement?

I realized, you can't win over people when they feel your contempt for them.

As a soldier in Frankfurt, you could find soldiers drunk, at brothels and being obnoxious. They embarrassed me.

You can't win a war when the populous likes your enemy more than they like you.

This was a very nice article (if you only care to hear one side of the story).

I'm curious how many civilian deaths the Taliban has been involved in since 2006.