Patience appears to be the key. Apparently just sit and wait. Eventually the us.gov always gets bored, loses interest and leaves.
Yeah , just waiting it out is about the best strategy
We were in a village once back in 2006. I started talking with a young guy that I knew good and well was Taliban.
I told him, "You know, if you guys would just stop shooting at us, sit back and do nothing but wait? In about six months the us.gov will get bored, declare victory and leave." He said, "Yeah, I know, but they just won't do it. The madrassas in Pakistan keeps sending us these new guys that are all fired up and want to die for Islam, so they keep shooting at the Americans."
We both had a good laugh.
Only when they find a new source of drugs to sell. Fentanyl doomed the heroin trade.
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