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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I think your emphasis is backwards. I don't think American politicians who don't have the will to build infrastructure in their own country ever gave a **** about infrastructure in Afghanistan. They just wanted military bases. And I doubt they gave a **** about building any kind of political infrastructure either. Just make sure your puppets are willing to take your money. And the military leaders probably just wished they could have turned the whole country into a crater.
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Well, I don't know the details, but I don't think the Americans were there to build infrastructure anyway. Weren't they there to give a bit of military protection, giving the Afghans a chance to fix their own infrastructure and politics? Like putting up a fence round a patch of corn; keeping the deer away and hoping that something will grow.