ISIS claims responsibility for a series of deadly roadside bombs targeting Taliban fighters

Aussie Pete said:

Fair enough comment. I followed the second campaign with great interest as I'm ex military myself. It was a pretty good example of how to conduct modern large scale warfare. The allied forces were wise with Germany and Japan and those countries were stable democracies after WW2. Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of how not to restore nations after war.

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RDKirk said:

Japan and Germany had already been stable nations before the war (that was why they were able to become such international opponents).

They already had the concept of "nation" internalized by their citizens. They already had a well-functioning, civic-minded bureaucratic infrastructure extending from the national capital down to the the smallest villages. They had functioning courts and legislatures at every level. All allied forces had to do was let them piece back together what had been damaged during the war.

Nations can be restored...but they can't be built.

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Aldebaran said:

Let's hope the Taliban decides to devote more attention toward rounding up the ISIS members and reversing the decision to release them from prison, and a little less attention toward preventing women from being educated in schools.

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Aldebaran said:

Let's hope the Taliban decides to devote more attention toward rounding up the ISIS members and reversing the decision to release them from prison, and a little less attention toward preventing women from being educated in schools.

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Aldebaran said:

Not quite. Tax law enforcement isn't anything like like the Anti-Female Education Act of 2021.

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