never did understand the fascination with conquering a bunch of inbred religious whackjobs.. seems that from alexander to the russkies, we didn’t learn anything from history.
There is no value added from its inhabitants; there is no value added from its religion or its history, culture or religion. There is no value added by its physical landscape other than as a buffer for some other country. And, for that, that country needing a ‘buffer’ does not need it to be functionally viable for what some people call Afghani humans. Nuke it. It would still serve the same purpose, just without all the headaches.