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" ... Neutering al Qaeda, and eliminating Afghanistan as its sanctuary, were critical U.S. security objectives. Attempting to convert Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian-type democracy was not. Yet without fanfare or even any serious public debate, American decision-makers gradually shifted from the entirely defensible mission of counterterrorism to the chimera of counterinsurgency, thus taking on a problem that was not ours to solve, namely, the attempted transfiguration of the culturally nascent and tribal peoples of Afghanistan into citizens of a modern nation-state. ... "