What other problems face Afghanistan?

A ruined economy and infrastructure, a weak government, an unpopular president, a corrupt police force, widespread human rights abuses (particularly against women and girls) and a poor education system.

‘We’ll smoke ‘em out of their holes.’

GEORGE W. BUSH, 15 September 2001

‘We are not in Afghanistan to control that country or to dictate its future. We are in Afghanistan to confront a common enemy that threatens the United States, our friends and allies, and the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan who have suffered the most at the hands of violent extremists.’

BARACK OBAMA, 27 March 2009