Posted on May 1, 2018
Mattis claims Taliban 'cannot win at the ballot box' | FDD's Long War Journal
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"The failure to properly define the nature of our enemies in Afghanistan, be it the Taliban or the Islamic State, has led to bad policy. For more than a decade, US and NATO officials have harbored the erroneous belief that if we can just deal the Taliban a significant military blow, it will come to the negotiating table and Afghanistan will magically fix itself."
Mattis claims Taliban 'cannot win at the ballot box' | FDD's Long War Journal
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Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan
Taliban
ISIS
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We cannot win the "hearts and minds" as long as we are perceived as invaders and occupiers.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
You would have thought we would have learned that 8O or so years ago in Haiti and Nicaragua.
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I believe the Taliban will win when the US leaves the country, as their ideology is self rule and a sense of nationalism will prevail.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Think it will yet again be a civil war.. and that the US and NATO will suffer for long while from a strategic defeat..
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MAJ Ken Landgren
I am sure when we leave, the Taliban will come out of the wood work to overthrow the government.
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