Afghanistan

The situation in afghanistan is difficult. there's no real reason why we're there. i think the main reason for UK/US presence in the country is that they're trying to set up a democratic governing system. problem is that the afghans really don't want one, nor do they like outsiders occupying their land. the UK has had multiple experiences fighting the afghans and have had alot of trouble in that region, mainly because they're such dedicated, bastard fighters; who will literally fight tooth and claw to get you the fuck out of there. they actually developed a tactic, called butcher and bolt, which they employed against towns and such, as the name implies, they run and kill a load of people, the get the fuck out of there. and it worked pretty well. now though it's impossible to employ such dirty tactics and avoid war crime accusations thanks to NATO. basically we have a load of troops over there trying to maintain control over the regions while some dipshits far far away decides what the best course of action is. while the natives are getting more and more pissed off. it's a fucking shambles.

TL;DR shit is fucked

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America and its NATO allies

Correct me if I'm wrong but it's just the british and americans doing the fighting? The others are "helping" in other ways.

They are there to prevent it being used as a base to attack the rest of the world.

It is this foreign policy that exacerbates ill will to the occupiers because of civilian casualties and atrocities committed by soldiers like abu grahib (Yes I know thats in Iraq).
There is literally nothing in Afghanistan worth the resources to take it.

Not true. A strategic vantage point in case Iran attacks and building oil pipelines. Plus, the longer the war drags on the longer the USA makes weapons.

so a 1500% increase from close to zero is not really surprising.

Ok I give you that.

and finally apart from the logistics of setting fire to 100,000s of thousands of hectors of farm land which I would guess *would* be that hard.

True but they used Agent orange in viet nam so I'm sure they could use something  a little less toxic. But yeah you re right it would undermime the support.