Afghanistan

The situation in afghanistan is difficult. there's no real reason why we're there. i think the main reason for UK/US presence in the country is that they're trying to set up a democratic governing system. problem is that the afghans really don't want one, nor do they like outsiders occupying their land. the UK has had multiple experiences fighting the afghans and have had alot of trouble in that region, mainly because they're such dedicated, bastard fighters; who will literally fight tooth and claw to get you the fuck out of there. they actually developed a tactic, called butcher and bolt, which they employed against towns and such, as the name implies, they run and kill a load of people, the get the fuck out of there. and it worked pretty well. now though it's impossible to employ such dirty tactics and avoid war crime accusations thanks to NATO. basically we have a load of troops over there trying to maintain control over the regions while some dipshits far far away decides what the best course of action is. while the natives are getting more and more pissed off. it's a fucking shambles.

TL;DR shit is fucked

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Total fantasy, America and its NATO allies are in Afghanistan directly and indirectly to related to 9/11. They are there to prevent it being used as a base to attack the rest of the world.

This was achieved. Its job now is to turn a hundreds of bronze age tribes in to some kind of functioning nation, so that it won't collapse again.

There is literally nothing in Afghanistan worth the resources to take it.

The price of Heroin dropped so low in 2001-02 that the growers switched to other crop and just sold there remaining supplies.
so a 1500% increase from close to zero is not really surprising.

and finally apart from the logistics of setting fire to 100,000s of thousands of hectors of farm land which I would guess *would* be that hard. I doubt it would do much to win hearts and minds, not to mention would make such a nightmarish visual image that would massively undermine all support for the war across the world.