"Graveyard of Empires" is of course, partly cope. "We failed, but so did Alexander the Great, Britain, and the USSR." Identity crisis averted! American exceptionalism maintained!
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Exactly. Just because the terrain and the tenacity of the defenders made it harder for him than conquering some other places doesn't = failure.
I think the entire 'graveyard of empires' bit also crucially distracts from the truth about Afghanistan. It isn't some uniquely unconquerable place. It's just that since the overland silk road became less important, Afghanistan is some of the least valuable real estate on earth.
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It's the last place empires go and the first place they leave.
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Right. It's correlation, not causation, that the three modern empires who decided to attempt an invasion were in their waning stages.
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