Yet those two ladies you know are not now in that country, are they?
The loss of Afghan-anything in this world wouldn’t be missed. How many thousands of American soldiers’ lives would you be willing to trade for rugs? My count is damn near 7,000. We didn’t lose a damn thing there except American blood and treasure.
Not justifying the murderous things that happened in Afghanistan and continue as we speak.
Just that they had a country with a monarch, long before the Taliban moved in to subjugate and murder anyone that didn't agree with their Islam extremism.
They were backward from western standards but were never into the terrorism that the country later became.