[jdsteel]

Of course the Taliban of today say that.

The Taliban of 20 years ago, who ran the entire country and had the balls to attack the US, are all dead. Afghanistan has had many free elections, more secure than our last one. They once thought we could not do that. We did.

It is not the fault of the US military that new young people chose to repopulate the Taliban.

The lesson? Nation building in the Middle East doesn’t work as the population’s culture does not want it. If we have to do it again just nuke the bastards and leave them in their mess.

[logician2u]

Uh, Afghanistan is not even the Middle East although its population is predominantly Muslim.

If we had to do it again?

We don’t. And we shouldn’t.

But it could already be too late to undo the mess that we got ourselves in starting with the so-called Persian Gulf War of Bush the Elder.