I agree with You. That's why I said that USA lost war against Afghanistan.
But according to USA propaganda USA didn't lost war against Afghanistan and since USA didn't lost then nobody is to blame for losing. Very convenient for USA politicians, not so much for US taxpayers.
There you have the answer, on the priority list was to get a foothold in the region.
And never the goal to eliminate Afghans or something like that, otherwise, no Afghans in Afghanistan anymore.
A example of GREAT restraint.
Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad etc. troops would have massacred the crowds
German NAZIS too.
Soviets/Russians too.
Otherwise they don't learn.
They learn it or are going to heaven, easy as it.
Not that I don't understand them, I would be angry too as ordinary Iraqi but that's not the point.
The point is that most soldiers from the armies over the world would shoot you a 3rd eye or minimum 2nd arsehole, you can pull shit like this really against Americans/Europeans mostly and get away with it.
Murricans had situations like these in the thousands and mostly avoid to shoot these guys.
Americans are stupid to go in under most suspicious reasons (lying to their own, otherwise they wouldn't join the adventure), have not clear defined goals but only a approximate frame and then don't know how to pull it if things don't work as expected - even secret services warned of this/that consequence, sectarian war if Saddam his cronies are dethroned as an example.
America is becoming a 3rd world shithole.
Then another Moloch will come and take the place, like always in history.