> Afghanistan is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, Iran is overwhelmingly Shia Muslim, and those two groups HATE eachother. That such a hilarious oversimplification

> Afghanistan is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, Iran is overwhelmingly Shia Muslim, and those two groups HATE eachother. That such a hilarious oversimplification. You are just bumbling into a highly complex issue throwing around generalizations. The issues between Iran and Afganistan are overwhelmingly about water rights, not some religious battle. Iran supports different groups within Afganistan, including Sunni and Shia. > if you want to keep those two countries busy murdering eachother for the foreseeable future, well, you "give" a bunch of semi-modern military hardware to Afghanistan, obviously. Except Afghanistan is not using those things to fight Iran at all. There is no hot war. Afghanistan can't really operate that stuff anyway, what they do is simply sell it as parts to finance the government. And as it looks right now, a war with Central Asian countries that the US certainty wouldn't want is far more likely then a war with Iran. > When I look at it though, I don't see a blunder, I see a strategic move. If you want to 4D galaxy brain yourself out of any bad choices by the government you certainty can but its just complete nonsense. The reality is these process are simply not planned out. Communication between militarily and politics are terrible. Sometimes things just are what they are.