Remember Hamid Karzai? That was Bush's puppet in Afghanistan, post Taliban. Thanks to Karzai, Afghanistan's opium production rose an impressive 20x under his rule -- fulfilling an insatiable appetite for drug addled Americans in need of firm opiate-laced needles in their necks.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-16/former-afghan-president-accuses-current-regime-treason-permitting-america-drop-moab
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.