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Originally posted by Pacifier
The primary goals are:
Capture OBL
Capture the leaders of the AlKaida
Destroy teerrorist infrastructure (camps etc.)
Bonuns mission:
liberate Afghanistan.
Plan one (smart style):
Get some Special Forces into Afghanistan to locate AlKaida Camps, OBL etc. Then try to capure these guy and use guided weapons to destroy the Camps.
Plan Two
Bomb the shit out of Afghanistan, than go in with groundforces and liberate the land, establish a UN Goverment and try to convert Afghanistan into a democracy
And now the Plan that was actually used (dumb style):
Bomb the shit out of Afghanistan, then use local extremists to "liberate" the land. Establish a weak local Puppet-Goverment and try to convert Afghanistan into a democracy
So the fact that something was done is not bad, I agree that something had to be done to fight AlKaida. But what was done is, in my opinion, the worst thing that could be done. None of our mission are completed. noone knows where OBL is, or what the status of AlKaid is. They could be destroyed, but it is also very possible that they moved out of Afghanistan and formed multiple smaller "terror cells". Tis would make the future figh against AlKaida very difficult
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Pieces of all of your plans were used. But again, there is no easy way to rehab Afghanistan. The UN will not commit resources for as long as it will take to accomplish the democratization of Afghanistan and there are quite a few doubts about whether their culture would accept democracy.
There are also a couple of goals you missed in the invasion of Afghanistan. One being to strike back against the terror network in the short term and make them focus their energies on evasion. The second was as an example to governments who support terrorism that they will pay a price for that support. The last thing most dictators want is to lose power as they spent most of their lives trying to attain it.