I agree with you that the boots on the ground can't be westerner boots. However, I will share with you something from my own experience that's very important. I travelled to Afghanistan before and I saw our training. Definitely the Canadian soldiers did a great job training the military there. The only problem is that often when we train an army like that.... America has been in Iraq for the last 10 years training the Iraqi army, and where's the Iraqi army now?
I will be honest with you. I will not be politically correct here, because I am really sick and tired of political correctness. I will just say it the way it is. The Americans supported, for example, bin Laden during the time of the mujahedeen and turned against them; supported Saddam Hussein during the Iranian war and turned against them; supported the Libyan rebels who killed their American ambassador three months later.
What's the definition of insanity? It's repeating the same action and expecting different outcomes.