It seems to me that Americans are just trying their hand at the same bad ideas that other countries have had in the past and which have failed. If they are trying to prove that they can actually win, then they are dumber than those who came before them.

Americans will stay there as long as they will have under control lucrative narcotic trade which is bringing estimated $50 mld to US. Drugs are not used to finance the war but to destabilize whole surrounding area and neighboring countries. The cultivation levels under US-NATO exceed 160,000 acres of opium poppy reached in 2000 during the Taliban regime, which was aggressively promoting the crop at the time to finance military operations. Afghanistan is already the world's leading supplier of opium, which can be processed into a variety of narcotics, including heroin. Most of Afghanistan's heroin is exported to Europe and surrounding countries, with less than 10 percent reaching the United States and 30% reaching Russia.