if we could not defeat the Taliban with 100,000 U.S. troops in country in 2011

6-2-17     Trump's conundrum:  3,000 or 5,000 more U.S. troops can at best help the Afghan security forces sustain the present stalemate.

But if we could not defeat the Taliban with 100,000 U.S. troops in country in 2011, we are not going to defeat a stronger Taliban with a U.S. force one-seventh of that size.  And if a guerrilla army does not lose, it wins.   https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/26156-is-afghanistan-a-lost-cause
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