All countries have an underlying theme, a national philosophy that creates a unique identity. For America it might be progress and liberty. For Afghanistan its anarchy, that's what the Pahktuns prefer, no national central government. Rule by tribes, nothing more, and paranoia of anyone outside the tribe.
We will never change that. We are walking ATM's. They know we will be gone someday and they are right.
UBL did not even want to be in Afghanistan. He was kicked out of Sudan (after the Sudanese Govt tried repeatedly to hand UBL to Clinton but was refused) and the only country that would accept him, other than Iraq, was Afghanistan. The idea that he wanted to lure us there so we would go broke is silly. His goal was to kill enough of us here at home that we would do a ‘Somalia’ and withdraw from the Middle East.