The Pentagon responded to this article saying killing Taliban was not the primary goal of its Afghan war. Its primary goal is nation-building— which is expensive. So, if that’s the task, how much it is costing to build the crumbling roads and schools and corrupt judicial and administrative systems —how do you calculate that ROI, if you don’t want to count Talib casualties? Global media only writes about the deaths in Afghanistan and nothing else, so they think it’s an important number. I thought the Pentagon’s line was that we were there to disable terrorists and not to build an Afghan nation. When did that change? The Pentagon flip-flops with the best of them. They never make mistakes, they just change the rules.
The Pentagon responded to this article saying killing Taliban was not the primary goal of its Afghan war. Its primary goal is nation-building— which is expensive. So, if that’s the task, how much it is costing to build the crumbling roads and schools and corrupt judicial and administrative systems —how do you calculate that ROI, if you don’t want to count Talib casualties? Global media only writes about the deaths in Afghanistan and nothing else, so they think it’s an important number. I thought the Pentagon’s line was that we were there to disable terrorists and not to build an Afghan nation. When did that change? The Pentagon flip-flops with the best of them. They never make mistakes, they just change the rules.