Re: Drone success rate worse than terrorist targets
1) They can't send ground troops into taliban safe havens, training camps, and bases in pakistan to disrupt the the taliban's command control. Much of the taliban simply shifted east into pakistan as the US invaded.
2) Not enough boots on the ground as they were diverted to iraq for stupid reasons. You have to conduct war on a much larger scale to contain an insurgency.
3) Traditional difficulties of fighting in afghanistan remain.
1) leave the taleban on our side of the border...there are plenty more on the west of durrand line who are controlling over 70 % of afghanistan which the americans have not been able to control...these are the same people which have not been won over by the brits and russians...there's nothing sinister over here, just history repeating itself...
2) Well we will see the impact of more boots on the ground in the coming summers...
3) Traditional difficulties for the americans for fighting in afghanistan...and no such difficulty for the pakistanis... :)