re: #439 William Barnett-Lewis

It took Alexander the Great only six months to conquer Persia, the superpower of that age, but it took him nearly three years (from about 330 BC–327 BC) to subdue Afghanistan. And as soon as he died they threw off that subjugation and have been eating empires for breakfast ever since.

It’s not a matter of if we get our asses handed to us, but when. Eventually, Afghanistan will get a benefactor to help their resistance to the US, as they did when we helped them against the Soviets. Far better to let them self-manage now while we can still claim some kind of accomplishment.