Afghanistan: The Land of Endless Battles. Recently it was reported that the Americans left the Bagram Military Base in Kabul in the dead of the night without informing the Afghans. So to put it succinctly, the war weary Americans having lost thousands of soldiers and having spent one Trillion Dollars belatedly realised Afghanistan was a lost cause and couldn't bear to spend a day longer in the arid country.
If the Americans had bothered to read the history of Afghanistan before the invasion of 2001, they would have discovered that Afghanistan was a land soaked in blood and a land where foreign armies perish. The Pashtuns, Hazaras and other Afghan tribes do not countenance invasion by foreigners and would rather fight to the last man to resist foreign powers from dominating Afghanistan. The Persians, the British and the Soviets all left Afghanistan hurriedly after years of fighting between 1751- 1989.
Unfortunately for the Americans, they failed to learn the lessons of history and therefore were fated to repeat history.
After the loss of thousands of American soldiers and over one Trillion dollars down the rabbit hole and the Talibans arguably at the peak of their power now...the Americans cut and ran in the early hours of Friday July 2nd 2021as though pursued by a horde of demons from hell. Another unceremonious exit by a great power from Afghanistan...the Land of Endless battles.

If you follow United States wars you will know they don't come to win wars... They only come to distabilize your economy

Echowas:
If you follow United States wars you will know they don't come to win wars... They only come to distabilize your economy

Lol...

Not in Afghanistan's case. They never really had an economy to bother about at the time the Yankees came calling.

Geekhard:
Afghanistan: The Land of Endless Battles. Recently it was reported that the Americans left the Bagram Military Base in Kabul in the dead of the night without informing the Afghans. So to put it succinctly, the war weary Americans having lost thousands of soldiers and having spent one Trillion Dollars belatedly realised Afghanistan was a lost cause and couldn't bear to spend a day longer in the arid country.
If the Americans had bothered to read the history of Afghanistan before the invasion of 2001, they would have discovered that Afghanistan was a land soaked in blood and a land where foreign armies perish. The Pashtuns, Hazaras and other Afghan tribes do not countenance invasion by foreigners and would rather fight to the last man to resist foreign powers from dominating Afghanistan. The Persians, the British and the Soviets all left Afghanistan hurriedly after years of fighting between 1751- 1989.
Unfortunately for the Americans, they failed to learn the lessons of history and therefore were fated to repeat history.
After the loss of thousands of American soldiers and over one Trillion dollars down the rabbit hole and the Talibans arguably at the peak of their power now...the Americans cut and ran in the early hours of Friday July 2nd 2021as though pursued by a horde of demons from hell. Another unceremonious exit by a great power from Afghanistan...the Land of Endless battles.

Since the days of the generals of Alexander the Great(Seleucus and all), Afghanistan has always given invading armies sleepless nights. You will also recall that Afghanistan was the scene of some of greatest challenges faced by Alexander the Great during his path to conquest of the known world.

Going by the above, we can safely state here that it has been a long-running tradition of the Afghans to resist fiercely any attempts- veiled or overt- at foreign incursion or invasion. It is like an unwritten national defence policy.

You will definitely have a hard time holding on to such a rugged terrain with a bunch of hostile and fiercely independent tribes lurking around.

A land which yields practically nothing. How then do you survive on it?