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There were 50,000 AlQauda/Taliban in Afghanistan when the coalition first went in. Basically the amazing American Air Force went in. God I love those old B-52s! Anyway to date we have only killed about 5000 Alquadi. The rest fled to Pakistan since we did not have ground troops in place to cut them off. Basically it was a missed opportunity. So there are about 45,000 of them on the Pakistan border and we cant touch them.
Pakistan is basically friendly but the Paki government has little control over the border region.
Afghanistan is important to AlQaudi because of the money they can make from Poppie production<herion>. They want it back. Americans are pulling out of Afghanistan because really they are needed in elsewhere.Dont forget this is not a war against a country. This is a war against an organisation that has no borders and to a certain extent lives among us.
Nato does not have much of a force in Afghanistan. Some AlQuadi is slipping back from Pakistan but so far not in big enough numbers to have any kind of decisive battle.
Whats to be done?
Leave Nato there as bait in hopes that they come back?
Secure the border with Pakistan and then eventually expand the war into Pakistan? Really I think this would be a mistake.
Secure the border and get on with rebuilding Afghanistan and just try to forget about Pakistan for now? The problem is we went to Afghanistan to kill AlQuadi. Not Nation build. However we are hurting AlQuada in the pocket book if we can cut them off from the herion trade. Without money wont the 45,000 in Pakistan just fizzle out?