"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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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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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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