We’ve been nation building in Afghanistan for 20 years. It didn’t work and we’ve failed to train a military capable of holding the country even after dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into it.
Have we really been managing that well though? I feel like we haven’t made a great effort at this in a systematic way, with proper accountability of funds, and so forth. I also think this kind of effort may take more like 50 years (more than a one generation thing) to have a voting population and leadership that is ready to carry a stable nation forward.
Growing poppies, helping with the heroin trade and killing civilians is not "nation building".
The real solution would had been "do not invade"
Especially when neither the terrorists nor the masterminds of 9/11 were Afghani. And especially when Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for good f*cking reason.