Before the Soviets invaded in 1979, Afghanistan had a fairly westernized culture, women wore nice clothes, men wore suits, there were cities that were more than mud hovels. The US didn’t destroy Afghanistan; the Russians and the Mullahs did that.
After World War II, we executed most of the senior Nazis. We left the mullahs in place. THAT’S why, after 2001, there was no success in rebuilding Afghanistan. The Germans wanted to restore what they had in 1939. The mullahs wanted to restore what they had in 750. if we had rounded up all of the mullahs and executed THEM, then the Afghan people could have rebuilt for themselves, with a little help. Just as the non-Nazi West Germans did in 1946-1949.
