The Taliban now hold more ground in Afghanistan than at any point since 2001

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Here's how it works:

You drop a Democracy drone into a group of people.
Usually a group gathered for a wedding or a funeral, 'cause it is a more "target enriched environment".

Then you send some other people to go count what ever body parts are left.
Any and all parts count as a militant, or an insurgent, or a rebel, belonging to the "bad" side which is Al-Quada, or the Taliban, or
anti-government troops, or ISIS, etc.
then the Pentagon writes a line or 2 about the attack, using one or more of the first parts and one of the group names.

and there you have it. We have to be at war cause there are evidently bad guys, as proven by all the drones we had to fire.

And no, I am not making this up. News groups like the Intercept have written about the military admitting they count all pieces of pulp after a strike as "the enemy", no matter what age, what sex, etc.

Just like troops in Viet Nam used ears for a body count report.