Afghanistan is lost. Turkey is reverting and leaving it’s former secular govt. for an Iranian type theocracy.
I’ll eat my hat if Egypt sets up anything that resembles a democratic secular government.
People have to get out of the mindset they we can convert religious fanatics.
A knee jerk reaction is thinking we’ll win Afghanistan if we stay long enough.
I agree wrt Egypt but don’t forget that it had a pro-Western government for 30 yrs which Urkel overthrew.
No one is claiming we should try and convert religious fanatics in Afghanistan or anywhere else. Our presence there and in Iraq is primarily to kill terrorists. It is the Roach Motel tactic. They check in and don’t check out.