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That view of how to fight a war is simplistic, barbaric, juvenile, and wrong. Worse yet, it's fruitless.
Ask the Nazis and the Japanese if they agree.
As for Afghanistan, the Russians were a pure aggressor, and were winning right up to the point we started giving the Mujahideen some Stinger missiles.
We go in to get Bin Laden and the Taliban. You help us or you're the enemy. When we have them we leave, and you can go back to stoning your women and sleeping with your goats. Just don't mesS with us again or we'll play really rough.
Instead, we are laboring under the utopian idea that these people are going to drop 2,000 of martial tradition and adopt Western democracy. We see how well that's working out...