Afghanistan will never be a normal country. What a waste of blood and treasure.
The lust for controlling Afghani resources was passed off as humanitarian concerns. Honestly, I don't think a US soldier should've ever suffered so much as a scraped knee so Afghani girls could learn to read or whatever was the excuse-of-the-day for intervention.
I never understood why GWB went in there. Saudi Arabia is the country we needed, and still need, to worry about. It would've made much more sense to stop Afghanis and their poppy crop from leaving their country than aspiring to control or change them.
This country has been tribal and fought each other (as well as any invader) for thousands of years——you cannot change the basics and people-—what kind of idiots do we have running our military to send our troops to A place like this?-—read your history books!!