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CAMP DELARAM II, Afghanistan -- When our Fox News team was here more than a year ago, this was a platoon patrol base. Then this area was a Taliban free-fire zone, and rarely did Marines venture "outside the wire" without some kind of engagement with the enemy -- usually an improvised explosive device planted in the moon dust that passes for dirt here in this arid desert.
When we returned to Afghanistan last autumn, this dusty crossroads town had grown to become the headquarters for a battalion. Today Delaram is "home" to Regimental Combat Team 2 -- and thousands...
Afghanistan Midwar
Patch...You've obviously given victory in Afghanistan a lot more thought that I have.
If I'm not mistaken, these 'buy up the crop' schemes never seem to accomplish the intended goal.
It seems to me that Political Correctness is the problem. Why not go in with overwhelming force and kill everyone who ever even considered being a jihadist?
Then we could build a few utilities and some schools and hospitals and leave.
A hundred thousand troops with construction battalions on the southern border for a few years might yield the kind of dividends that Americans can appreciate.