> When you think of this system at scale, running unchecked, you can see how 9/11 style acts of terrorism happen.
9/11 hijackers were mostly well educated, middle-class Saudi Arabians. Not Taliban, as you seem to imply.
If anything, what could be argued is that Afghanistan lacking a national police force makes it easy for terrorist groups to establish military training camps there. But that's a whole different thing.
Not even, it makes it easy for warlords to train militias, not for terrorists.
Terrorists rarely need combat skills as we think about them. Terrorist training is more about pushing the button - which is all religious, or maybe playing flight-sims and practicing with a knife. They do this in living rooms and garages.
Local warlords though, need places to train troops live ammo, firing RPGs and mortars, practicing attacking and defending against other large local foes.
Not that they shouldn't be stopped - that's a valid question - but we went in after international terrorists, shot local warlords, and claimed victory.
(In the process, killing enough people unjustly to cause much of a generation to have real reason to hate us.)
9/11 hijackers were mostly well educated, middle-class Saudi Arabians. Not Taliban, as you seem to imply.
If anything, what could be argued is that Afghanistan lacking a national police force makes it easy for terrorist groups to establish military training camps there. But that's a whole different thing.