A large percentage of the insurgent fighters in Afghanistan came there from other parts of the world to kill infidels. They travel from more than 60 nations to do so. Many have at least some secondary education, and the finances to support themselves and travel to the conflict.
They are not the Ewoks. I don’t think there is a Star Wars comparison for what they are. In attitude, they are closer to the aliens from “Independence Day”, in that they have no desire to negotiate with us. For them, it will not be over until we are dead, enslaved, or converted. They have been doing the same thing, for the same reasons, every time in the last 1300 years when the prevailing power dynamic has enabled them to do so.
That being said, I personally think it would be better for everyone if we were not there at all. Not for the Afghans, of course. They don’t seem to want to be ruled by any sort of foreigners, even Islamic ones. And the ISIS people seem to be worse than any group that I have ever studied, They make the Bolsheviks look like cub scouts.
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