war is a money-printing machine for the powers that be and they wanted it to go on forever
why else would they have made no effort over the past twenty years to make a coherent country out of Afghanistan, which is a bastard agglutination of unconnected tribes to begin with? You can't appeal to national identity to make Afghans reject the Taliban, because they have no concept of national identity; only tribal identity.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2021, 19:19, archived)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2021, 19:23, archived)