I am not saying you are wrong, only that the proof is far from there.
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Then why do you insist on calling it proof?
I said we have proof that it can be done, because it has been done. I never claimed that we have done it, so you can relinquish that strawman argument. In fact, one of my criticisms is that we haven't done it.
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Back to proof again. Yes, the same thugs who made people go to the soccer stadium to watch their friends, neighbors, and family members be executed for the slightest infraction of their view of law. That kind of governmental? My vision and definition of government doesn't stretch that far. That is brutal tyranny.
Clearly, you either didn't watch or paid no attention to the video.
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I am saying that their message and approach, tied to their zeal with implementing it, as opposed to our moralistic approach with such strict self imposed limits, makes our attempting a battle of hearts and minds from the shadows, a gross miss-match we can't win.
Please, tell us how many Afghan civilians have died as a result of our bombings, invasion, and occupation. There is nothing "moralistic" about our approach.
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And you expect us to be able to chase the Taliban out and make them stay out with just a different approach?
No, I expect our military leaders to understand the only way to "win" is to use a different approach so that the Taliban is made irrelevant, so that it is unnecessary to kill them or chase them out. We know the current approach is failing. Why are you so resistant to a different approach?
Some say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different result.
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The Taliban's harsh fundamentalist rule has dismantled all civil institutions, and closed all women Institutions.
It's a shame that we supported the mujahideen to rebel against Afghanistan's secular government under the Carter, Reagan, and GHW Bush administrations, making conditions ripe for the Taliban to rise to power.
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I said we have proof that it can be done, because it has been done. I never claimed that we have done it, so you can relinquish that strawman argument. In fact, one of my criticisms is that we haven't done it.
Clearly, you either didn't watch or paid no attention to the video.
Please, tell us how many Afghan civilians have died as a result of our bombings, invasion, and occupation. There is nothing "moralistic" about our approach.
No, I expect our military leaders to understand the only way to "win" is to use a different approach so that the Taliban is made irrelevant, so that it is unnecessary to kill them or chase them out. We know the current approach is failing. Why are you so resistant to a different approach?
Some say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different result.
It's a shame that we supported the mujahideen to rebel against Afghanistan's secular government under the Carter, Reagan, and GHW Bush administrations, making conditions ripe for the Taliban to rise to power.
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