The downside to fighting proxy wars. They don’t defend themselves before we show up and certainly won’t after we leave. Had we nuked Kabul when they refused to hand Bin Laden over we would have had 20 years of peace instead.
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Exactly. When the neighbor’s dog attacks one of your kids, you shoot it. Problem solved.
You don’t offer to send the neighbor’s dog to obedience school and build it a kennel (on YOUR dime).
That’s the difference between “punitive action”, and “nation building”.
