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by inglor_cz 1774 days ago
It would be shortsighted to try to pin this failure on your disfavored party. During 20 years of Afghanistan, 11 saw a Republican president and 9 saw a Democrat president. Not to mention other allies in the field, who contributed quite a lot to the peacekeeping effort.

Afghanistan isn't a modern country and cannot sustain a modern military or modern governance. Taliban is adapted to local conditions, Afghan govenrment isn't. But modern countries cannot help someone build a tribal fighting force best suited for the most remote mountains on the planet; people tend to replicate their own institutions wherever they go, because they are the only ones that we actually understand.