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Originally Posted by Sugetsu
Africa was a very rich continent, but it has been raped over and over by the Europeans for centuries. Afghanistan on the other hand is sitting on nearly one trillion dollars of untapped precious minerals and strangely enough ever since the invasion its Opium sales have exploded.
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On the other hand, every invasion force that has ever invaded has utterly failed to hold it for any length of time. Afghanistan is basically the edge of civilization.
Look at how bad the Soviets failed, and militarily the Soviets were pretty much as strong as the US. I think the Americans are recognizing that's it's pretty much impossible to maintain a region like Afghanistan. Even Afghanistan has trouble holding Afghanistan! (look at the number of tribal warlords...)