[hanamizu]

There is a saying about Africa: Africa wins again. The same can be said about Afghanistan: Afghanistan wins again. The graveyard of empires. Sooner or later, Afghanistan always wins.

Going in to pound Al Qaeda and Osama was one thing, staying to try to build Afghanistan into a modern nation state was madness and a waste of good American lives.

It’s not our circus, not our monkeys.

[rellic]

Agreed! But when you are dealing with Democrats, expect failure.

[rbg81]

The same can be said about Afghanistan: Afghanistan wins again. The graveyard of empires. Sooner or later, Afghanistan always wins.

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I guess it depends what you mean by “winning”. I am not sure you can call being dragged down to living under Medieval Islam a victory. If the Taliban takes over again, there will be a lot of unhappy people. However, at the end of the day, they did not want to fight to maintain their way of life. Sucks to be them.

[Cronos]

It’s not a graveyard of empires. It has been conquered and ruled by many empires over the millennia including the Achaemenid, Mauryan, Macedonian, Seleucid, Indo-Greek, Kushan, the Sassanids, the Rashidun Caliohate, the Ummayyads, the Abbassids, Ghaznavids, Ghorids, Mughal empire, and the Durrani empire.

It was given the moniker of graveyard of empires by the brits as it was a buffer state between the British India empire and the Russian empire.