Old Blue wrote:

“Pissing off the elders of a remote district in Afghanistan by standing on our principle of a female soldier wanding them is simply a waste of engagement and damages our ability to make further progress.”

I’ve appreciated the wisdom in your comments. I’m curious, given the insight you’ve expressed so far, how you view the chances of success given the natural humiliation that occurs when we, a foreign invader, tries to ‘help’ the Afghanis? Is there really any chance of successfully invading and occupying their lands and making progress ‘civilizing’ them? Aren’t there better methods of attempting to ‘civilize’ then the military option?