Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
U.S. war planners should have taken this into account, and had correspondigly reflective ground strategies and exit strategies.

Yes or no?
They did, and they had.

It may take ten years before Afghanistan gets its act together and create some sort of sustainable central government. That's not because of lack of American planning. You can't blame the Americans for Afghan unwillingness, stupidity and backwardness.

And it's no use for western powers to invest in a society that doesn't want to be one, to reconstruct roads for warlords and to rebuild powerplants, organise education or train a police force in the sole interest of a bunch of corrupt tribal leaders.

Let them rot in their own misery.