The army and our return in investment

[Moscow Mule]

Why can't they just finish the job?

If you can define the job, I'm pretty sure the combined services could finish it.

It seems to me that the mission is to: sit in Afghanistan, get shot at or get blown up - one that seems to be accomplished on a daily basis by souls far braver than I.

My preference would be to turn the entire region to glass, but that doesn't go down too well with the world since those two squibs in Japan...