re: #247 Shvaughn

That doesn’t mean that any invasion of Afghanistan is automatically an altruistic act done for the benefit of the entire world, though.

Nor did I say it was— though again, we never really invaded them. We supported the anti-Taliban forces, got them to form a government, and are now there with the permission of that government.

The problem of Afghanistan goes far beyond our presence there, goes far beyond anything we can possibly fix or solve. It is poverty-stricken, has warlords in control of large swathes of it, an enormous drug trade, and intense religious fervor. I had hoped that good leaders for the Afghan people would emerge, but they haven’t. I don’t see any good path forward; I didn’t see any good path for Afghanistan back when the Taliban was in control, either.