Again, nothing personal about your BIL, but it's more bullcrap covered kobe. What we have done to Afghanistan and it's people makes the Taliban look like the Welcome Wagon. It's not the USA's job to train anyone on the other side of the planet to handle bully's, if it were, we should be in every village, town, school yard across the planet. The Royal family of Saudi Arabia run a more brutal country than the Taliban did, they just have money to wear fancier rags and drive Rolls Royce's. Oh did I mention Saudi Arabia, where most of the alleged 911 hijackers came from, where Wahhabi hate springs from every mosque like oil from the sand and spreads to whatever Muslim country needs to be attacked by US?
I am willing to wager 99.999 percent of those killed, wounded, imprisoned indefinitely, etc. in the GWOT could not have harmed a hair on a single American head Stateside. A "Terror" war is a myth that has been sold to the American people that HAS NO END. New enemies are created out of thin air, they can say anything and back it up with a few clips of idiots running around shooting weapons, waving flags, driving around in pick up trucks, etc. and then tell the American people we need to spend BILLIONS of dollars to stop them.
We created the Taliban via the 1980s mujahedeen, we created bin laden, just as NOW we created ISIS to try and oust Assad, or maybe we created them for exactly what is going on right now. We train and arm then and magically go to war with them shortly after. Brilliant!