We can't actually fight anymore, not since Vietnam, because, see, somebody might get hurt. Somebody foreign, that is --- doesn't matter so much if our guys get hurt and killed, apparently. We have to pretend we're their bestest new friends and hope they believe it. Nobody has ever believed it since the 1960s, but hey, maybe someday somebody will, 20 years into what we fondly call a "war" with them.We won World War II, and pretty fucking decisively.
We could've done the same in Afghanistan. The world would not have approved, but the means is there to take a country like Afghanistan and start over from scratch...
Doesn't sound very plausible, though. No, the way it works is, we invade, everybody there hates us, we take 20 years and they win and we lose, we decide to evacuate, and fly out people on helicopters, leaving a lot behind.
I'm not sure this is a good process.