No No No! Including the minnows doesn't make the competition a joke, Hempy, on the contrary. The phenomenal success of the football World Cup stems from its very inclusiveness which allows youngsters from Gabon to Gaza to identify with it.
If there's just a hint of a serious side to this most flippant of threads it's that the mere presence of an Afgan team at an international contest shows that all our blood and treasure expended there hasn't been an absolute and total waste!