Afghanistan WAS won, Anon.
The glorified policing operation that followed was literally less dangerous than logging or roofing work for anyone involved.
>>64124732
>Once you can solve the IED problem you can stabilise and have the breathing space to begin rooting out the corrupt governors, drug barons, the police boy-rapers and all the other shit that Afghanistan had
Fundamentally impossible, 75 IQ third worlders can't be fixed in a generation.
They can be ruled over colonial style, or they can be left to their own devices.
You won't be able to build a western style democracy and high trust society there, it WILL fall apart the second you leave.
