[FreedomPoster]

And the Brits before them. Go read Churchill’s The Story of the Malakand Field Force. It’s free at Project Gutenberg.

And the Greeks/Macedonians before them.

We should have been there for a punitive expedition to crush Al Queda and the Taliban, 2 years max. Then decamped after crushing them, saying don’t do that again, or we’ll come back and mess you up worse. In hindsight, we should never have attempted so-called nation building. Can’t be done with the raw material, both geographic and human.

[samtheman]

We should have been there for a punitive expedition to crush Al Queda and the Taliban, 2 years max. Then decamped after crushing them, saying don’t do that again, or we’ll come back and mess you up worse. In hindsight, we should never have attempted so-called nation building. Can’t be done with the raw material, both geographic and human.
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I agree