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by kennysoona 459 days ago
> Those things have not been achieved. If those were the aims, the US lost and the Teliban won.

That's one way to look at it sure. From a purely force against force perspective though, they didn't come anywhere close to losing.

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> From a purely force against force perspective though, they didn't come anywhere close to losing

Yes, I agree. The US saw this as a military problem, but that was only part of it. Winning a particular ground battle, capturing a town etc was only part of what was needed.