...increase the socioeconomic power and industrial output of the Afghani citizens so they can strengthen their infrastructure to afford advancements in transport technology which in turn will help to increase their socioeconomic power and industrial output?
We have fewer horses and bayonets, but we still have some because they can still be useful (though in the above cases the horses were Afghan).
the solution to afghanistan has always been quarantine. an enlightenment is too much to ask.
You know, al Shabab, in "Somalia", uses donkeys to transport materials along their logistics chain as well. Connection? Poverty, methinks.