The Afghan Civil War Was Never Any of Our Business
Neo-Con Cold War chickenhawks wanted to occupy Afghanistan as an outpost against Russia. If the Heirguardsman and Darth Evader hadn't been so unfit for duty, they would have bypassed the Taliban and annihilated Al Qaida in Tora Bora, following the psychos across any border, all the way to Tibet if that's what it took.
Our pinhead opinionists were incapable of asking why the Yellow Yalie appointed an expert on the defunct Soviet Union as his foreign-policy advisor. Her specialty was obsolete, and she knew very little about anything else. Critical thinking would have realized that the ruling class has been trying to cripple Russia ever since the first Cold War ended.