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Nobody can "beat Afghanistan" because forcing people who have no interest in running a country the way the rest of the world runs a country to do so a black hol
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
Nobody can "beat Afghanistan" because forcing people who have no interest in running a country the way the rest of the world runs a country to do so a black hole for money and lives.
There's a lesson about wars of occupation with ill-defined objectives in there.
- pessimizer 4y ago> no interest in running a country the way the rest of the world runs a country The US and Europe aren't "the world," and the actual world has plenty of theocracies.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoThe way Afghanistan was (90s) and is governed by the Taliban and how that authority and responsibility interacts with the local tribal authorities and governing responsibilities is a unique system outside of history books. It is not a "modern state" with the characteristic strong central government that all states have had for ~200yr or so. Compare to Pakistan or Iran if you want.
- zie 4y agoWell in theory, it could be done, if one were willing to do it for 50-100 years. I.e. you'd have to indoctrinate the young for at least 1 generation, but probably 2-3 generations into power. I don't see anyone having that long of a timeline wanting to do it. The US did it for 20-ish years, and clearly that wasn't long enough.