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This was not purely some internal domestic civil war. This was a war where a smaller country (Afghanistan) was being invaded by a larger country (Pakistan). Same thing as the Vietnam War, which was also lost. Smaller South Vietnam was being invaded by larger North Vietnam. So the insurgents they were fighting were not merely just locals, but there were also lots of enemy combatants flooding in across the border from North Vietnam nextdoor. Likewise, in this latest war, Pakistan nextdoor was hosting the bulk of the Taliban insurgents. In both wars, decision-makers in Washington didn't want to invade the country nextdoor where all the enemy support was coming from, because that would "dilute the war", "expand the war", "escalate the war", "destabilize the region", etc, etc. So obviously then the enemy had a sanctuary from which they could continue to get lots of support and regenerate their manpower and supplies to keep fighting indefinitely. That meant the path to victory was cut off. You can't win a war by fighting with one arm tied behind your back. And this war was fought more stupidly than Vietnam -- at least in the Vietnam War, US taxpayers weren't funding the North Vietnamese. In this war, Pakistan was funding, recruiting, arming, training, supplying the Taliban -- and the United States was funding Pakistan! WTF?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q84yN8ZFd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTAIGtMlLdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnYggE1y6c
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