At which time the West responded by bombing the Afghan people,
No.
We didn't.
We sent special forces in and called down extremely well-targeted airstrikes on Al Qaeda and the Taliban, with collateral damage percentages well below those in previous wars, which enabled our allies in Afghanistan to win. "Bombing the Afghan people" implies that we punitively bombed random Afghanis, which would have been an entirely different sort of strategy.
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No.
We didn't.
We sent special forces in and called down extremely well-targeted airstrikes on Al Qaeda and the Taliban, with collateral damage percentages well below those in previous wars, which enabled our allies in Afghanistan to win. "Bombing the Afghan people" implies that we punitively bombed random Afghanis, which would have been an entirely different sort of strategy.