The Great Game, another loss

[Louis VI the Fat]

Well, thats another failed Imperial adventure to add to the list, though I doubt we will be able to milk as much romanticism from Afghanistan as last time.

Failed or not, Afghanistan is not an Imperialist adventure. There is a very clear reason why we are there. The invasion had to be done. To avenge and to prevent.

Being the good guys, we didn't set out to destroy Afghanistan, but also to hope to turn it into a functioning democracy. This, it would appear, it is not going to be anytime soon. By this latter standard, it is a failure. It is not a failure in the supressing of AQ and the Taliban from openly waging terrorist warfare against America / the West / everybody else.