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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The thing to remember is that nobody can conquer Afghanistan and it is never likely that it will resemble a Western democracy... ever. This is a nation that, with the massive financial support of the US, brought the Soviet Union to its knees. This is now a nation, the massive financial support of certain gulf state interests (with deep pockets made deeper by oil profits), that may bring NATO to its knees.
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I brought this up with a friend one day. He said "This is the USA there's no way some little rock and dirt country's going to take us out. No way, no how." Bet there were a lot folks in the old USSR that thought the same thing not so long ago.
I get the feeling if this were a Simpson's episode Nelson Muntz would be saying "Ha Ha, you're funding your own demise. What? I said Ha Ha."