Afghanistan is a perpetual disaster since the 1970’s and it doesn’t get better.
Afghans have proven again and again that they are tribal/sectarian and unwilling to fight for an unified state.
It would not be the worst option to partition it by having Uzbekistan (authoritarian US ally) get the safer North areas (settle the Uzbek origin Afghans there), Iran gets back Herat and all of the Afghan Shias, the Pashtun mainland goes to Pakistan and would be economically colonized by China.
If I was Iran I would not want to acquire any Afghan territories, Shia or not! Talk about a raw deal. It would serve them right though. LOL.
“Afghanistan is a perpetual disaster since the 1970’s”- Yeah, the 1970s... B.C.!
But you make good points.
Agree, had thought the same at one time for Iraq and now Syria
Afghanistan has been a disaster since 1870; ask the Brits.
Pakistan is the trouble-maker there. Split up this terrorist craphole and the problem there is solved for good.