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To: bentway who wrote (559388)	4/7/2010 3:12:46 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576347

"They've never had even a second-world state." Maybe not. But before the late 1970s, it was relatively peaceful and wasn't in grinding poverty. It has significant natural resources, and was the gateway on a natural trade route. By the time we invaded, there were plenty of people who still remembered that and would have valued a chance of return. It never would have been a Western-style democracy, but the killing would have stopped. And, who knows? That fine, black Afghani hash might have come back on the market...