Today, Afghanistan is the land nexus of the World, the World of nearly 3.5 billion people with growing incomes and rising aspirations. America lucked into this nexus position. The question is whether the American mind is prepared to seize this chance the way China did with Tibet.
What a piece of crap.
The most crucial geostrategic spot on earth is Turkey, not a unusable land in Central Asia.

To have AFG means nothing. Even the Philippines are more geostrategically relevant than AFG.


Tell me one influence that could be exerted out of AFG in your nations' advantage (benefit minus cost !!!) that wouldn't be available otherwise.


Tibet is also rather useless. China has nothing to gain from hostility with India but some useless patches of rather barren land. The most interesting thing Tibet does is to distort the Chinese population density statistic.