[Windflier]

The will of the people living there to return Aphganistan to the modern age just are not sufficient to do the work of rebuilding their nation.

Very true. They're extraordinarily resistant to western influences. Theirs is a backwards, brutish culture, and they intend to keep it that way.

[caww]

......”They’re extraordinarily resistant to western influences. Theirs is a backwards, brutish culture, and they intend to keep it that way”........

You know it’s almost impossible when the men see sex with a woman as dirty and prefer little boys. And their wifes are beaten and abused til they hate their husbands....it’s a terrible way to live.

I recall one of our female soldiers stationed there who said their ability to understand ‘life’ in general is so tainted by the demands of Islam and their clerics unyielding control of their minds that to show another way of viewing life IS impossible in their setting.