Can We Learn Not to Meddle in the Conflicts of Other Nations?

If there is any country’s experience that proves that outside intervention typically prolongs and intensifies a conflict, it is Afghanistan’s since 1979.

Afghanistan has been wracked by war for the last four decades, and for pretty much that entire time outside powers have stoked conflict and kept the country bleeding. If there is any country’s experience that proves that outside intervention typically prolongs and intensifies a conflict, it is Afghanistan’s since 1979. Between support for the anti-Sovie…