Well, we also reduced the two Latter Countries to True and Absolute Ruin!
Told them to "Knock this War Sh!t off!"
Because of that we completely changed their societies.
We could Change Afghanistan, but that would require Nuking the Entire Site from Orbit and reeducationing everyone under the age of 12 to our way of thinking.
Total war followed by total occupation.
These days we aren’t willing to do either so our only real option is to drop the nation building crap.