Yeah, America has just done wonders for that place.

All of that free-market capitalism has really fixed things up.

Of course, we've only been there for, what? Eight years?

jeebus... wtf have we done over there?

>> ^netean:
jeebus... wtf have we done over there?


We're spreadin' freedom baby!

Oh don't be daft. The Russians destroyed most of it, then the Taleban. The US simply...failed to fix things.

"[Kabul] fell into the hands of local militias after the 1992 collapse of Mohammad Najibullah's pro-communist government. As these forces divided into warring factions, the city increasingly suffered. [...] Kabul was factionalised, and fighting continued between Jamiat-e Islami, Abdul Rashid Dostum and the Hezbi Wahdat. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed and many more fled as refugees. The United Nations estimated that about 90% of the buildings in Kabul were destroyed during these years."

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul#Modern_history