Our Mission in Afghanistan Was Never Supposed to Be Nation Building

The idea that we could nation build in a dusty graveyard of empires, agree or disagree with it, is certainly one of the narratives. I believe if we allow the hope of a liberated afghanistan to evaporate because we are fearful of the phrase nation building, history is going to judge us very harshly. The talibon began to marshal weapons and fighters when they left pakistan for a major offensive timed by siraj hacani,. who's a member of alcida and the military commander of the talibon. They were attacking maternity hospitals, gunning down mothers and infants, setting secondary bombs up outside schools so they could kill more people. This is the enemy