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I also remember a bunch of American promises ... giving our solemn pledge to rebuild the country from the ground up, drown them in international monetary aid, and turn them into a bulwark of democracy in the region.
Fast forward 1 year : the central government controls the capital itself while warlords (many of them "governors" under the Taliban) run the rest of the country as a raggedy ass collection of semi-feudal states. By turns, they threaten each other and the central government. Opium poppy cultivation is way way up. The US media practically gushed over footage of Afghani women walking around without their burkhas after the US "liberation", but they haven't covered the return of burkhas nearly as well.
Meanwhile, the United States, while maintaining a military presence in Afghanistan and its neighbors, has moved on to new adventures. Once again, we're promising to bring freedom and democracy and a helping hand in rebuilding what we've destroyed and helped to destroy.
Remind me again why any rational observer shouldn't conclude that the United States is full of shit and should be destroyed? As an American myself, I would be really grateful if my governent would stop shitting on the rest of the world. Maybe if we either (1.) left the rest of the world alone militarily or (2.) actually kept our promises, I wouldn't have to read the news everyday to see which of our remaining freedoms we're giving up in order to be "safe from terror".