The problem is, is that the problem is not Afghanistan.
It's Pakistan.
If and until we are willing to deal with that, we can be there another 100 years and the result will be the same.
@Free Vulcan Vulcan
The ONE universal truth in this whole mess is below.
"ISLAM declared war on all non-Muslims while Mohammed was still alive. That war will never end until Islam is the only religion all over the world."
THEY declared war on US before any of us were even born.
How have we been dealing with this? We have been trying to fight them to a draw and make them quit. How freaking foolish is THAT. Islam is a "Religion of Conquest",and they will keep quitting the fight for a couple of generations in order to be able to breed replacement Jihadists,and then start all over again for as long as we allow them to do this.
What MUST be done,but probably won't be done in todays touchy-feely world,is to start by destroying EVERY mosque in the west,and deporting ALL Muslims that are not US citizens willing to condemn Mohammed in pubic. If they have any property,seize it,sell it,and send them the money left over after the listing and selling expenses and warn them that if they ever come back without permissions we will kill them where and when we find them.
If that doesn't solve the problem,and I really think it won't,we need to get together with nations like GB and pretty much wipe out there home countries by destroying every mosque there,and killing every known religious leader as we find them,where we find them. No arrests,no courts,just death. Death is what they deal,so let's give it to them.
AND.....,it's not gonna happen because the typical westerner of today is "touchy-feely". They would rather see freedom and America destroyed than fight back in a way that would end this threat to world peace and individual freedoms forever.