With a combination of military force, and the import of thousands of people from all western nations, encouraged (or bribed) by a better life for all, to colonize Afghanistan.
What were they thinking or dreaming? A New Plymouth Rock America? A new bigger Israel in the M.E.? We all know there are valuable natural resources there. And all those outsiders and soldiers that migrated there were in a sense, conned or used for somebody else’s, or big business dreams of more free natural resources.