If we wanted to really change Afghanistan, we might consider opening internet cafes all over the place and offering free laptops to everyone.
Islam and the remoteness of the population has prevented Afghans from entering the modern world.
BTW, Afghanistan sits on trillions of $ in mineral wealth.
It doesn't have to be poor.
“The goal there is eliminating the incubators and safe havens of jihad, not nation building.”
Bullcrap. If that were the goal it would have been done in 2002 in less than 6 months. A few thousand sorties of B-52s carpet bombing the country would do it.
“If we wanted to really change Afghanistan, we might consider opening internet cafes all over the place and offering free laptops to everyone.”
Screw that. Not one more nickel that isn’t in the form of American made bombs, preferably 2,000 pound ones.
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