$300 Billion US, spent to stop the Taliban

$300 Billion US, spent to stop the Taliban and guess what? The Taliban is stronger than ever--In Pakistan the military is training the Taliban to fight the Americans. It doesn't matter who the General is that is in charge in Afghanistan, there will be no American victory--the Russians learned that the hard way. Why are we making the same mistake? Any reasonable person would start to question the competence of our Military brass, the Congress and the White House. I think, they have been so conditioned over the decades that they can no longer think outside the box--this is the way we did it, all the Text Books and training manuals are written in the old warfare methodology--so these old generals do not know how to think new.