Ummmmm.......I already gave you Japan and Germany as examples of success,(how to do it) as well as south Korea. You saying they are failures?
Are they not allies today?
I fess up un the shia sunni thing...I got that backasswards.
But my premise is that we did not stay. We needed to stay and the same will occur with Afghanistan. Both are lost...complete waste of young lives and treasury.
No, they were successes but for the reasons I mentioned.