Posted on Sep 25, 2017
Taliban retakes district in Afghan northwest | FDD's Long War Journal
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This area is just a quagmire. Too many movable parts that just can't get along.
Taliban retakes district in Afghan northwest | FDD's Long War Journal
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That's to put it lightly Afghanistan has no experience with having any real form of national government never in its almost 2 thousand year history many.
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PFC (Join to see) agreed. And the French & English just screwed it up even more in WWI.
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Yep creating their own sphere of influence with Iraq Iran and many other nations created and not very understood by the local populace.
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PFC (Join to see) - they didn't care about the local populace. They just wanted to make sure the Ottoman Empire didn't reform, therefore forcing one of the Axis powers out of the war.
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