Originally Posted by
Packrat
Afghanistan: Where empires go to die.
1. Persia
2. England
3. Russia
4. U.S.
Not exactly correct...
We didn't go there to take over, we went to get the architects of 9/11 and their supporters. Our problem was that we then felt morally obligated to stay and "fix it since we broke it", although in the case of AFG it's always been broke.