system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
&gt; Not so hot take: It didnt work in afghanistan because we did not fully commit to it ever. We basically half assed it and eventually left because of public opinion. 

Yes, half-assed it by spending over multiple trillions. A few more decades and the US would be the new Ottoman Empire during its demise and sell Alaska to finance debt.
gpt
Yes, half-assed. We never fully committed to changing anything. We deposed the Taliban, tried to build some civic engineering stuff but we didn't go full colonial and just take over everything. You can spend a lot of money but not fully commit to winning or spend it wrong and have the wrong strategy. Look at a recent Yankees payroll as an example.

Also, I don't think we should have been there at all in the first place. I knew we didn't have the stomach to do what would have been required to actually commit to real change there, so we spent a shit ton of money, hundreds of thousands of lives later and then just handed it back over to people who waited 20 years for us to get tired of playing at nation building.