"A growing level of sophistication.”
When you start in the subbasement of the outhouse of barbarism, the only way to go is up, for Chrissakes!
There is only one cure for that breed.
I would need to see quite a lot of proof before I would accept that Pakistan is an ally of ours. I’m not sure about their new leader, and I am sure that the general population is NOT.
So we push the Taliban out of Afghanland and occupy some of that “lawless tribal region”. I think we could hold onto it. And control it with an iron fist if necessary. I figured out years ago that we would eventually be at war with Pakistan. I had hoped Iraq and Afghanistan would have changed their minds, and I had figured that we would have taken out Syria by now. Sooner or later the West is going to have to invade every single one of these pisslamic nations and scorch the earth. That’s unfortunate, but they are blinded by jihad and won’t see reason. So kill them.