Deepak, As you say, the Americans were dismayed to see Afghanistan turn out to be "Talibanistan", very soon after they left. After spending huge amounts of monies and then celebrating the defeat of the "Soviets", it was quite a humiliation and disappointment for the Americans. As we know, they over-reacted by invading Iraq. There real target should have been Pakistan, for them to set aright. Then, controlling Afghanistan would have come out right. Now, they are really struggling in southern Afghanistan because Pakistan supports these Jihadis, running back into Pak territory -"shoot and scoot". In my view, American foreign policy is dumb, although when you hear them "analyse" it sounds all wonderful, sophisticated. In reality the Americans are gullible, almost idiotic in most of their policies in Asia and Mid-East. I cannot extend their stupidity beyond that.
