The reason the US, the UK, and others, went in was that those doing so were doing with impunity and running full time training camps as well.
They still are. In Pakistan. Meanwhile, drug billionaire and corrupt politician Karzai continues to Godfather the heroin trade and our former anti-drug, anti-corruption friends, the Taliban, have become the enemy. WTF?
The newspapers do an immense amount of thinking for the average man and woman.
Not for me they don't. As an avid student of history I was opposed to the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures from the very beginning, choosing not to accept the government propaganda directed at us from the press or even the UN Security Council. Almost a million UK citizens marched against the Iraq war but Bliar the Liar and Brown the Clown chose to ignore popular opinion and go in anyway. Iraq was all about oil and Afghanistan is all about what exactly? Tribalsim? The place has been about tribalism for centuries and nothing that outsiders can do or say will change anything.