How does he have an ounce of credibility after Abu Grahib?

been conquered is going to work in the 21st century.

What a warmongering fool. Supply lines over two continents and two oceans — easy peasy. He can draw on his great success in Iraq .

What, those other countries bordering Afghanistan are going to allow us to airlift troops (mercenaries) through their airspace, or over their roads, like they are in favor of helping us colonize another country?

This dangerous individual is trump-like in his imaginings that the world would stand by and watch such outrageousness unfold.

He needs to take his meds and ideas back to the 17th century where instant, worldwide communication didn't exist and such overt militarism could flourish without the colonizer nation becoming an instant pariah.

These people have just all latched on to things they can sell. Their ideology follows their sales pitch.

God, pls let the generals intercede.

Good luck with that.

with invaders, whatever name they give themselves.

I suppose if you tell them they can have as much in minerals as they can steal, he'll find some people with outstanding character to move there.

All he has to do is wave cash under the noses of his mercs and like the whores they are, they'll go in with no reservations!!!

Only Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan ever managed to bring parts of Afghanistan into a functional larger empire. You, sir, are nowhere near their caliber.

The only thing that unites the almost 200 culture groups in the legal country called Afghanistan is an invader. (Note that NATO/US has not managed to trigger that reaction despite 16 years.) They do have long memories, and the last colonial attempt is within living memory.

...not even Ghengis khan could achieve something more or less functional. Too busy, kills, rape, destroy and on and on...

But his great great son Shahrukh Mirza, son of Timur Lang great son of Ghengis, did very brightly. He secured the Silk Road and controlled the main trade roads between east and west. Samarqand and Herat became wealthy cities with great commercial exchanges.

Sorry, it is a bit simplistic but not enough fluent to make a more elaborate reply.

I had to do a work on Afghanistan History. I remember, it took me a great deal of time but really interesting. I still have a short version, less academic, written with a humor touch. It is in french, I may post it in the right place if someone is interested.

But he wasn't.

So here he is...again. (Because that's how that works - allow government/government contract criminals to go free and they come back one way or another)

If you don't remember all of his various crimes, to include those of Blackwater, look them up.

And only deserve to be executed, their bodies nailed to a tree and then set on fire!!!

I am not sure if the British Empire should be our model for Afghanistan. Of course private security contractors would love the idea of being the modern East India Company. More money for them! I wish conservatives would get as mad about tax dollars going to private contractors as they do about money going to food stamps, education and Medicaid.

And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen.
-- Rudyard Kipling, 1919

The British East India Company and the infamous 1842 retreat from Kabul:

Here's hoping Erik Prince ends up like the Sean Connery character. . .

Two fools met.

Mais quel imbécile congénital !!!!

Afghanistan was considered as a crossroad of the civilizations, an epicenter of great empires and a geostratégic situation (Silk Road).

From Alexander the Great to USSR, through Mongols, Persians, British Empire, all have tried to seize it and all failed . Russia and later USSR, the last ones, finally gave up after 2 centuries struggling in Afghanistan. Needless to point their perfect knowledge of the territory. Although them surrendered.

So, M Prince, how will you achieve that? By the Grace of the Holy Spirit?

of American education!

Read a book, you army-playing clown

Though the current CIC certainly is.

I consider private "military" hired murders. They have no duty but to their own.