Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
There's an even more recent example, the Red Army gave up to it as well. There was every reason for the Yanks to go after Alky Ada and Bin Laden, but then mission creep took over, almost as you say BT, our politicians never learn, 'we' or at least our sons and daughters are the ones that suffer, the ones that get killed and maimed.
Sadly, not just killed and maimed physically because many are contending with terrible mental problems because they actually survived in incidents where others were killed.
History was not heeded after the disasters stretching back almost 200 years in Afghanistan.