It isn't magic dirt, it's the Culture. Our Founders openly acknowledged that the Constitution would only work for a Christian population. What they meant was that it can only work for a society of civil people who are already mostly self-policing, and thus don't need a heavy-handed federal government to be big and all-encompassing. The Afghans have a Islamic culture that is clearly very aggressively self-policing, but it is not civil by any stretch of the imagination. Freedom, laissez-faire economics, and rugged individualism do not work well in Evil ideologies. That's the difference. Once they get rid of Islam, they will have the "magic dirt" to become a positive force and a good nation... but not until then.
Bingo.
I don’t think Israel had any “magic dirt” either.
I think it is English speaking populations that can do it. The language influences the thought processes and the thought processes influence the brain. You have to know English to do have the freedom we have.