By Edwin A. Locke
Actually, we should never have gone to Afghanistan in the first place.
Military training does not help fundamentalist countries in the absence of value training, and value training could only work if a large portion of the population became pro-reason and thus pro-individual rights. This would mean they would be willing to fight to the death for freedom. It seems unlikely that such training ever occurred. If it did occur, it did not work except perhaps on a very small scale. The change would be too radical. So, in reality, the Afghans we trained to fight were fighting against their own religion and/or people of their own religion, and their fight was based presumably on differences of opinion on the application of Islam.
Should The U.S. Have Left Afganistan?
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