Originally Posted by roachboy

the paper i linked to is pretty precise about how the spiral went tho---it's not a question of principle, more a question of the fact that the us installed karzai whose government managed only to control kabul, which was skimming aid money off and diverting it to colleagues---lack of co-ordination in the training of police---inability of the government to deliver basic services--continuing us occupation.

machiavelli knew that occupying another country is the point at which your problems start, not end. the neo-cons obviously only read the cliff notes.