In Iraq we had a chance, in Afghanistan, we don’t. Every person I have spoken to that has served in Afghanistan has said the same thing I am saying ... these people will never change ... they don’t want to change. They are happy and content in their tribal conflicts and will never accept anything less.
Democracy is such a foreign concept to them that they refuse to even conceive of such a thing. The Koran is their “constitution” and anything else is beyond their intellect.
I had dinner with a camera man from Argentina News a couple years back.
He also said they happy living in some distant century and don’t want to come into modernity.
Lost cause according to him and he is a socialist...
They used to say that about the Indians in the French and Indian war, too.
So Afghanistan is doomed to be a staging area for Islamic attacks on the West no matter what?
There are no “tribal conflicts” there. And nobody said a word about democracy, which ought to be alien to the USA too frankly since the left is so fond of it; we were founded as a republic. I’m not for changing our enemy, frankly, but defeating them; not that any of the Uniparty is for that; but running away like we just did in Yemen will make us look weaker still.
Under the most recent King they got along fairly well. They had a university, schools, rights for women, etc.
Problem was, though.... with the university came Marxism. And with Marxists came “community organizing” and division and eventually a coup.