What took the might of the Soviet Empire, the erudition of the British Empire a generation to learn, has taken Washington seven years. You cannot impose on the disparate and clannish Afghan people ideals and “standards” which their history has continually rejected without fundamentally changing the entire ‘psyche’ of the Afghan people.
The only people to make an impact on the Afghans were the Mongols and they did it by imposing the strict code or law of the Mongol Empire that was universal under their regime. It read, 1- No gods supersede the Emperor. 2- All gods are equal under the Emperor. Down to about 10 when it read all emissaries to the Court of the Emperor are to have safe passage under threat of death to perpetrators. The Mongols enforced their law by recruiting the savants and mandarins from within the conquered nations, supported by the most mobile and terrifying army ever seen on Earth. For a brief period of time it efficiency and thoroughness worked.
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