Dear great historian, I'd rather be more interested in my immediate neighbourhood then a place called Darfur... Last I checked Afghanistan was right next to Pakistan I am sure on your keyboard it just don't register for some strange reason. Amerikan sucess stories are important in the historical context of those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it..
Next time I will reincarnate as HoChi Man to give you a better taste of amerikan version of success.. :)
Right lets just ask an avg Afghan how war has affected them, shall we.
bravado is all fine and dandy until bombs start falling.
whether US suffers defeats and casualties is a diff topic.
question is how does it affect people in the area.
I am sure life is not going to get better in FATA if they start getting daisy cutters.
At the end of the day USSR retreated from Afghanistan as well, but were Afghans better off after that?
so lets think practically. and that was the point of the post that Large scale operations can take place.
posturing bravado doesw not help, whether you are ho chi, ayuubi, ghaznavi or abdali.