What kind of anarchy is it when the group with the most guns tells you what you can do & what you can't do under threat of violence?
Boring one?
Also, whether Afghanis have "defeated" every military power throughout history depends on your definition of "defeat".
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And yes, this thread lends indisputable evidence to the hypothesis that political discussions have to be airgapped from the rest of the project
well, what is happening in this thread would happen a lot more without a political ghetto to stick the debates in.
Afghans drove out every major world power. The Romans, The Greeks, the Russians, they are still working on us, but my money is on them.
As far as their fairly oppressive social contract that is what they choose, it is not being forced on them by anyone. It may have been forced on them by the Taliban for a while, but that is no longer the case. They have a choice in judges and they tend to choose Taliban because that is line with their social values.