Go back far enough and you'll find the british empire thought Afghanistan would be a fun place to invade quite a long time before that. It worked out just as b

Go back far enough and you'll find the british empire thought Afghanistan would be a fun place to invade quite a long time before that. It worked out just as badly for us as it did for the USSR and the US later. I'm not sure why Afghanistan is catnip for overconfident empires, but it seems to be a repeating pattern.