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The US did famously well against groups with just guns and IEDs.
That stint in the Middle East was a quick 20 min adventure.
Yes and no. We played that game by rules only we abided by.
Had we gone in and stayed without those rules, it would've been over within a year. But then we'd have committed a genocide and would be ruthless savages.
The Soviets didn't exactly hold back in Afghanistan...
Apples and oranges