Afghanistan is the only country, in the history of the world, that is so poor and disorganized that there has never been a road between its two largest cities........ until we started building one. Now, the entire roadway is “protected” by the local militia, Taliban, thieves, whatever.
We gave the Taliban a revenue source they never had before, but we call that nation building.
Afghans aspire to anarchy, fighting, and revenge. They are the most inbred people on Earth.
Yup, nation building.......
We should have left Afghanistan after the punitive expedition phase with the admonishment “don’t harbor scum like that again, or we’ll come back and mess up you over worse”, and never started the so-called nation building phase.
You can’t nation build with tribal savages grounded in Islam.