3 ms·
We’ve been nation building in Afghanistan for 20 years. It didn’t work and we’ve failed to train a military capable of holding the country even after dumping h
by adrr 5y ago
We’ve been nation building in Afghanistan for 20 years. It didn’t work and we’ve failed to train a military capable of holding the country even after dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into it.
- project2501a 5y agoGrowing poppies, helping with the heroin trade and killing civilians is not "nation building". The real solution would had been "do not invade"
- fakedang 5y agoEspecially when neither the terrorists nor the masterminds of 9/11 were Afghani. And especially when Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for good f*cking reason.
- throwawaysea 5y agoHave we really been managing that well though? I feel like we haven’t made a great effort at this in a systematic way, with proper accountability of funds, and so forth. I also think this kind of effort may take more like 50 years (more than a one generation thing) to have a voting population and leadership that is ready to carry a stable nation forward.