Afghanistan is the Grave of Imperialism™. You name it - Persian, British, Soviet Russian, American… For some stupid reason every military empire falls into that suckhole, and it bankrupts every one of them, spiritually if not economically.
[To my knowledge only one SF author has recognized that; David Drake's odd, rather pointless book Fortress posited an alternate history where 1960s America did indeed get sucked into a quagmire - this one, rather than Vietnam. The practical result was the same.]
We have no reason to be in Afghanistan. Neither did any other military empire.
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Date: 2012-03-14 05:03 pm (UTC)Afghanistan is the Grave of Imperialism™. You name it - Persian, British, Soviet Russian, American… For some stupid reason every military empire falls into that suckhole, and it bankrupts every one of them, spiritually if not economically.
[To my knowledge only one SF author has recognized that; David Drake's odd, rather pointless book Fortress posited an alternate history where 1960s America did indeed get sucked into a quagmire - this one, rather than Vietnam. The practical result was the same.]
We have no reason to be in Afghanistan. Neither did any other military empire.