re: #6 Dark_Falcon

Afghanistan got quite a good bit of reconstruction resources,

I will repeat that many Afghans took to growing drug crops for our enemies because they had no other options. So what exactly constitutes “a good bit” if not “enough to avoid being a narco state”?

1 - Iraq has better economic and trade infrastructure, yet you argue that they needed the money more than Afghanistan.

3 - So its Afghanistan’s own fault that we didn’t help them?

4 - Again, Iraq has more valuable resources, so they needed the money more than Afghanistan?

That its harder to economically develop Afghanistan is precisely why they needed far more help than they were given. Thats the point you seem to be missing. You’re practically saying “Afghanistan was already in squalor, so they didn’t matter to us. So we just didn’t bother for a decade because we preferred to go into Iraq and get that sommabitch Saddam instead. But that’s not our fault.”

Its that last part which compels me to call BS! Of course its our fault. We had a choice to make, and we made it. Its BS to just wash our hands and blame the victim.