Reply #84: Although Alexander won most of the battles & skirmishes there,

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he wisely withdrew as it was costing him too many casualties & there were no riches to be looted. Britain had a number of disasters involving fanatic tribal Afghan fighters & the Khyber Pass & the Soviets bankruptcy was largely based on their misbegotten invasion of Afghanistan. Obviously, we have better generals than Alexander and are far tougher than the British who held their empire for five hundred years or the Russians, who absorbed forty times our casualties and still defeated Hitler. :sarcasm: