> but my feeling is that making Afghanistan into a functional western style democracy with western style human rights is more like a 50-100 year project. Easil

> but my feeling is that making Afghanistan into a functional western style democracy with western style human rights is more like a 50-100 year project. Easily a 50+ year project, because progress effectively happens one death at a time. A large percentage of the old guard harboring outdated ideas will simply never change. The only hope is changing the minds of the new generations.