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Originally Posted by blacksmoke
Is it stupid to say that no matter what the local government in Afghanistan looks like, as long as there are no camps of jihadis training to attack the west than we have won?
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My military history professor had a saying: 'managers of violence.' He used to say that so long as a military plan does not have a goal which is a certain political endgame that all that plan would be doing is 'managing violence.' He defined any military plan that did have a political endgame as strategy. Going from this, so long as all we're doing is killing jihadis (a sound motive itself) without any thought in mind to what we're going to do when there are no jihadis left we're really doing nothing but 'managing violence.' This is why it is very important to always have a political/civil endgame in mind. Killing until there's nothing left to kill is not victory.
My $.02
Jack
PS: When I use the moniker 'we,' I am referring to the United States as a whole and not to the the QPs. I in no way think of myself as SF.