Originally Posted by crockett

You can blame Bush/Cheney for that.. After 9/11 we put about 300 CIA and SF's on the ground and they essentially created the Northern Alliance. They then coordinated attacks and were pretty much kicking the Taliban's ass with a small mobile force, combined with air power and Afghan forces doing most of the fighting. That was one of the good things Donald Rumsfeld did right.

We could have won Afghan in short order with that strategy, because we would have had backing of the Afghan people as it would be them fighting for their own land. Instead Bush/Cheney only saw dollar signs for big defense contractors and wanted to put on a big show with our armed forces.