Enemy Creation Has It's Drawbacks

Keeping conflicts going for profit can get a little troublesome.
The brilliant strategists thought they could occupy Afghanistan, control the drugs and build the pipelines with rudimentary levels of military troops, thousands of mercenaries and bribing the factions. Gratuitous slaughter of the ragheads meant massive funding for putting out the hotspots.
Trouble is the wogs want their country back.

‘Afghan Insurgency Can Sustain Itself Indefinitely’: Top U.S. Intel Officer

"The Taliban not only has the “momentum” after the most successful year in its campaign against the United States and the Kabul government. “The Afghan insurgency can sustain itself indefinitely,” according to a briefing from Major General Michael Flynn, the top U.S. intelligence officer in the country. “The Taliban retains [the] required partnerships to sustain support, fuel legitimacy and bolster capacity.”
And if that isn’t enough, Flynn also warns that “time is running out” for the American-led International Security Assistance Force. “Regional instability is rapidly increasing and getting worse,” the report says."

Congress to probe ‘US funding of Taliban’

"A House committee has launched an investigation into claims that US military contractors in Afghanistan are paying the Taliban to guarantee the safety of their transportation convoys, an allegation that could mean American taxpayers are indirectly funding the insurgency that has killed more than 900 American soldiers so far."