Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 14 2021 09:53pm)
The bolded claim is completely delusional. Afghanistan's problem is not poverty per se, it's the extreme backwardsness in terms of religion, ideology and mores. It's a country stuck in the dark age.
Members of the Afghan military, trained, funded and equipped by the NATO troops, had access to new hospitals and schools. Building even more of them would not have made any difference in these guys' unwillingness to fight the Taliban.
Like I said: sustainable structures need to grow organically, rather than being imposed by an outside force. And like the complete collapse of the Afghan military and government in recent days has shown, there has been very little growing over the past two decades.
You know why they're backwards in terms of religion, ideology and mores? It's because they've been almost continuously occupied for like 60 years. That shit doesn't evaporate over night. We equipped and trained their military, but we didn't give them a country to fight for. We just bombed shit and were surprised that the military jumped ship instead of standing to fight. Why would they fight? They've seen that their country will remain a battleground.
You're looking at this in very one-dimensional terms. Sustainable structures don't grow organically from nothing in a short time frame. But you can plant seeds in the form of infrastructure, education, and material well-being and allow them to sprout. We basically dropped a seed and then trampled over it and said "why isn't this growing?"