For those readers on this thread who have never been there, Afghanistan, I can report, is a country inhabited by people much like yourselves, not a gaping maw whose only function is to gobble up US/NATO/quasi-NATO (e g, Swedish, Finnish) soldiers. You wouldn’t want them coming home to you to tell you what to do, so why not leave them to govern themselves and associate with them as equals. WARNING : I am not responsbile for any heart attacks, strokes, injuries from falling off chairs, etc, occasioned by my assumption that Afghanis are as good as you are and every bit as entitled to the government of their choice, without the aid of your - and my - troops. If you are medically insured, take such problems up with your insurers ; if not with your politicians….
For those readers on this thread who have never been there, Afghanistan, I can report, is a country inhabited by people much like yourselves, not a gaping maw whose only function is to gobble up US/NATO/quasi-NATO (e g, Swedish, Finnish) soldiers. You wouldn’t want them coming home to you to tell you what to do, so why not leave them to govern themselves and associate with them as equals. WARNING : I am not responsbile for any heart attacks, strokes, injuries from falling off chairs, etc, occasioned by my assumption that Afghanis are as good as you are and every bit as entitled to the government of their choice, without the aid of your - and my - troops. If you are medically insured, take such problems up with your insurers ; if not with your politicians….
Henri