In Srebenica, for example, "we" did nothing at all to stop thousands of Muslim men and boys being murdered by Christians, who happened to be Serbs.

Afghanistan got sucked up into the war-by proxy that characterised the stand-off between The USA and and it's client states, and the Soviet Union and its client states. Up until then things had been gradually getting better in all kinds of ways.

Between them the two outside powers devastated the country, and then turned their backs upon it. Then Taliban regime was installed by outsiders from Pakistan.

What has gone wrong in Afghanistan is very largely "our" fault.