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Lawyer Ron mentioned the causes of problems in Afghanistan.
If anyone cares to understand causes, we gotta go way back, to the British empire, and beyond.
Is Afghanistan even a "nation"? Nyecht. Of course, I've read that Italy is not a "nation" by the strictest definition of the word. Look at both countries, and you can find a lot of similarities, if you know what to look for. At the bottom of it all, as Lawyer said, their cultures are tribal in nature.
Add to this, the fact that every political, religious, or other wacko faction in history has passed through the area to stir things up, and of course they can't be a "nation". Unless and until they form a nation, they will be a nobody in this world of ours.
If there is any "best" thing we can do for them, it would be to send agricultural aid, to help them get in position to feed themselves. At the same time, their borders need to be sealed, to keep everyone else out. For instance, Al Queda.
Realistically, if one or another political or religious faction gains the upper hand in that country, it is really no one else's business. At least not until that faction starts murdering it's citizens, like Idi Amin, or Pol Pot, or even the Taliban. We can't force them to be like us, any more than the Soviets could force anyone to be Soviet.
Yes, they need help, but they won't get it in the form they really need it.
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