Maybe it is a point of semantics, but W fashioned his strategy (diplomatically and militarily) around getting these governments to adopt democracy, and have the populous embrace freedom, liberty, and choice.
In the initial election, yes. But once that was over, Afghans were on their own to choose whatever they wanted.
The Bush doctrine was to maintain a minimal troop count in Afghanistan indefinitely to ensure that their government did not become supporters of terrorism again. Everyone brought up the point of how miserably the Soviets had failed there. Which is why Bush took a different approach. And it worked. Casualties remained low. Deployment remained low. Many factions gave up fighting the Afghan government and began working with them instead. And the Afghan people continued to select their government, including sharia law.
So to say that Bush was forcing American-styled government upon them is just plain false. His Afghan policy was one of the biggest successes of his Administration. The evidence of that can be seen in what happened once Obama took over.
I think DJT has rightfully figured that these people are like sheep, and need to be led by oligarchic means. He pretty much stated that he wants to get the Afghans to govern themselves the way they seem fit.
They already are.
