You are obviously a troll, but I'd like to point out that the U.S. military difficulties in the middle east are not for lack of military might, but for the retr

You are obviously a troll, but I'd like to point out that the U.S. military difficulties in the middle east are not for lack of military might, but for the retraints the U.S. places on its military power to retain moral and ethical legitimacy in a post WW2 world. If the U.S. instead decided that the lives of non-combatants in the middle east civilians mattered less than total dominance, any town harboring terrorists would be leveled flat with carpet bombs. This is not an argument that the US military endeavors are always moral and ethical, as they are not, clearly. However, there is a far cry between what takes place in Afghanistan, and how, for example, Rome ensured the peace in their territories: Roads lined with crucifixes.