“Nation-building in Afghanistan was always likely to be a failure”
Nation building in any muzzie country will be a failure. Hey, let’s try somalia again, or maybe yemen./s
All these writers have a deadline to say something relevant.
This is obvious fodder for the non-Freeper.
It’s a curse being so informed sometimes.
Our Army is even worse then the mgmt. by stats 2nd Inf Div in 73-74. That unit did not even know squad tactics. Now DADT, plus more has trashed it.
Afghanistan has an area, population and population density only slightly larger than Texas. But, because of Sharia law, they might make it into the 9th century in terms of social progress in the next century or so.
Don’t laugh, we’ll probably be back in Afghanistan now that Biden has been set up to create a total disaster and embarrassment to the US. Table-pounding congressional lapdogs of the military-industrial complex will no doubt start urging a return under the guise of “humanitarian relief” which is to say, new contracts for Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Dyncorp (remember that name?), Fluor, L3, KBR and others. Just because the US military withdraws doesn’t mean private contractors will - in fact it creates opportunities, gaps for them to fill. One of which will be to rescue those other contractor personnell who were abandoned by Biden.
Private military contractors operate in the shadows and without any government oversight. And it’s a lot easier to sneak money to them than it is to sneak troops across a border after the President says to withdraw. Someone has to pay and it sure isn’t going to be the taliban.
Of course a renewed war is also good for Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, etc.