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Well, look at afghanistan. B52 hardly made a difference against an army of farmers with AKs defending their homeland. Or the Viet Cong for that matter.
The situations are very different. I'm not saying it would end any better, but it would be a wildly different conflict.
Of course it would a different conflict, but the basic premise applies all the same.
Afghanistan is thousands of miles away, our military has very little local, international, nor domestic support, and the Afghan people are battle hardened people that has been in constant warfare since the industrial revolution and had been trained by the very force they were fighting. Jim Bob and the boys, have no advantage. There would be some support from locals and some from the military but none from high up in leadership and not enough from the people. Comparing the Afghans to how things would go here is laughable at best.
You seem so absolutely certain, yet I have no idea what you base that certainty on?
Historical facts
What part of history supposedly reflects your scenario?