So several decades ago, they had a nice government and all. Both the west & Russia meddled in their internal affairs extensively. A lot of things happened. Taliban was formed. Al-Qaeda was formed. 9/11 happened. A lot of people got involved again to clean up that area. A lot of nation building was attempted there. A lot of money was spent. A lot of went to corrupt government officials there. A lot of events transpired there essentially. Brad Pitt made a movie about it and all. US pulled out of that region finally. Ashraf Ghani who was supposed to look after the country, left the country. A lot of his generals surrendered to the Taliban when the US pulled out of there.

Now, I understand that there is a strong anti west sentiment in Afghanistan. I understand that Ashraf Ghani might be seen as an outsider given his association with the west. But even when the US was spending a crap ton of money on Afghanistan, those people there were just sucking up all of that money and lining their pockets. Do they not understand that they are screwing their own country by doing so? From what I know, the situation in Afghanistan is similar to Iraq. A lot of their critical infrastructure like water purification systems and all were destroyed in all of those wars. US spent a lot of money to restore their infrastructure, but the corrupt contractors ate a lot of it. Are these people not patriotic to their own countries? It almost feels like they were waiting for the west to leave and the Taliban to take over. I have seen the images of people running along with that giant US aircraft and all. But I can't help but feel that people there kind of wanted a Taliban government. It's either that or the government officials/contractors in these countries were selfish and greedy.

I watched an interview of Ashraf Ghani. Link. He sounds like an honest person who put in genuine effort to build Afghanistan back again. And yet people around him caused him to fail. Can someone explain to me both the Afghanistan people's perspective, the Taliban perspective and Ashraf Ghani's perspective. Like why can't these people work together to build a prosperous nation.