Reform wasn’t the initial objective - it was about the apprehension and destruction of Osama (thought to be holed up there) and his supporters, ranging from AQ to the Taliban.
Bush, unfortunately, was almost immediately made to feel guilty about fighting wars to defend the US and then decided to adopt the “humanitarian liberator” shtick in order to placate the Dems (who would never go for anybody actually defending the US!).
Sadly, we’re just handing it back over to the same people we spent billions of dollars and lots of lives in defeating - and we actually did have them on the run and out of power, until we decided that we were evil imperialists being mean to their historic culture, yada, yada, yada.
The only ones I feel sorry for are the women and young people there who may have been foolish enough to trust us. But then, I felt sorry for the Vietnamese who had been foolish enough to trust us, too. Oh, and all the Americans killed and horribly injured because they actually believed they were going there to defend their country and make the world safe for civilization...guess Obama and the Dems had other ideas.
The only difference between The 0/Afghanistan and LBJ/Viet Nam is that LBJ at least had the foresight to quit and walk away BEFORE his buddies in congress kneecapped our troops and any locals dumb enough to believe his line of crap.
At least the pimp media won’t be able to slander the troops in The Sandbox the way they did for us. (Not for any lack of effort, just because they shot all their creds and circulation.)