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Originally Posted by Roundeye
He's not going to avoid trying to capture Osama because he said something stupid and that he probably regrets. Be realistic.
The border region of Afghanistan is a son of a bitch. High altitude, dirt roads, moutainous terrain, and all the while you are forced to foot it with all a few hundred pounds of gear and water. Meanwhile the people who are indiginous to that area run up and down the mountains like it's nothing, plus don't they're not encumbered with all the equipment US Forces have to carry.
It sounds easy to just envelop the Taliban in a joint operation, but there are so many problems with that, one being that any plans made with the Pakistanis would be relayed to the ones we're trying to capture before the op ever kicked off by Taliban sympathizers.
It could be done but we'd have to ditch some current shitty policies that don't allow something like this to be possible.
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I am being realistic. If they wanted Bin Laden found would this really be how things developed
"By early January 2002 it was reported that the total number of US ground forces deployed in Afghanistan had grown to nearly 4,000 troops. By late January 2002 the total number of US troops in Afghanistan was reportedly over 4,000, including conventional forces to protect bases, along with engineers, forensic experts and interrogators. By August 2002 there were about 8,000 US troops in Afghanistan."
Operation Enduring Freedom - Order of Battle
Do you reallistically think that amount of troops were ever going to find him ? Bush must have known they never could - either it was intentional that he never wanted him found, or he is incompetent.
You are right when you point out how difficult an operation it is, but surely that's all the more reason why there should have been much more troops sent.