Mr Khan said:
Different. If it had been, say, Nazi Germany or Stalin fighting in the middle east or in South Vietnam, they would have won, if only through "burn every village to the ground" tactics. Which isn't at all to say we should do that. I'm just saying the Viet Cong, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the Taliban understand the moral limitations we have to put up with, and the successes of their strategy are based on exploiting that. |
Plus it is in their best advantage to do small hit and run tactics like what the Americans did at the beginning of the revolution against the British. For them to have "standing armies" trying to defend a border would be pure suicide. They just have to hid, blend in and strike whenever they can. Cheap tactic but it is the only tactic that they can use without getting slaughtered.
