Oh, they absolutely CAN. By all rights the war in Afghanistan should have lasted a week at most, but the powers that be didn't WANT it to end, they wanted to drag it out for years.
If our military didn't have its hands tied behind its back with all that winning hearts and minds, spreading democracy, helping them rebuild, etc. we could have probably rolled right over them. Remember, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, they were winning until we started supplying their enemies with weapons.
Oh, they absolutely CAN. By all rights the war in Afghanistan should have lasted a week at most, but the powers that be didn't WANT it to end, they wanted to drag it out for years.
If our military didn't have its hands tied behind its back with all that winning hearts and minds, spreading democracy, helping them rebuild, etc. we could have probably rolled right over them. Remember, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, they were winning until we started supplying their enemies with weapons.