your confusing the amount of time it took us to try and make goat herders into a functioning government. the actual invasion of afghanistan took 2 months. the actual invasion of iraq was less than 1 month. the cost of lives for the iraqi and afghanistan people was in the millions. we lost a few thousand over the course of the entire occupation. you can say what you want about our ability to control a country after we curbstomp it's military but there is no country on earth better at invading and just fucking shit up.
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