Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   "Lessons Learned from Afghanistan" Date:   9/2/2021 11:12:07 AM

I have long found it fascinating that we were able to militarily accomplish in very little time what the Soviets could not in Afgahanistan.  The problem is that those in charge fail to understand that unlike Europe and Japan, we are never going to accomplish a transition to a democratic style of government in countries that have never left a 6th century way of life.  They fail to understand that democracy is a relatively new concept and that human history is filled with autocratic rule as their way of life.  Ours is a grand experiment that is slowly failing because of our fallen human nature.