I can't believe the Blob is going with "Afghanistan was just like Japan/Germany/South Korea." Do they not have a better argument than that?
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There was a pretty blood insurgency in the late 1940s and constant infiltration by the North, not to mention a full-on invasion before. Had the US troops suddenly pulled out - who knows? Quick withdrawals are often quite a blow to a regime's morale.
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Also, there's rarely such a thing as a purely internal insurgency these days. It would have been extremely unlikely that the Taliban could have sustained itself without the support of Afghanistan's neighbor, which has six times its population.
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I'd argue that far more important than the nature of the threat was the nature of the regime being defended: Ghani became president in flawed but still competitive elections, while Park Chung-hee took power in a coup that snuffed out South Korean democracy.
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