Riding the Curve of American "Strategy"

Since Korea, the U.S. has followed a predictable foreign intervention curve: we send in the troops to do away with bad guys who threaten the U.S. in some way and they almost clean up the mess when the the other party gets voted in and gives away all the gains. This happened in Vietnam, it happened in Iraq, and now it's about to happen in Afghanistan. 

Helmand Province has seen some very hard fighting between U.S. and NATO forces and the Taliban, but it has been relatively secure since 2010. Now a U.S. general is in Washington reporting that as allied forces draw down per Obama, the Taliban is starting a surge to take over the province which will position them to surround Kabul, a la Saigon in 1975. I can see the helicopters lifting off the rooftops now - will the last American out of Kabul turn off the lights? 

Paraphrasing Edmund Burke, when good men do nothing, evil flourishes. We either have to become inured to evil ISIS or North Korea-style and too bad for refugees and everybody else or learn how to do this more effectively and make it stick. It's a tragic waste of lives and money and our national security is imperiled in the long run the way we are - and have - done it for some time. Let's do a WWII-type victory with one of the bad guys of the world and see how that plays with the rest of the thugs. 

www.wnd.com/2015/09/general-rushes-to-white-house-to-warn-of-taliban-surge/