Well, it's difficult to tell whether in the long run this will be good or bad for Afghanistan.
It's like the story of the little boy and the Zen master. See, there's a little boy, and on his fourteenth birthday he gets a horse. And everybody in the village says "How wonderful, the boy got a horse!", and the Zen master says "We'll see". Two years later the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everybody in the village says "How terrible!" and the Zen master says "We'll see". Then, a war breaks out, and all the young men have to go off and fight, except the boy can't, 'cause his leg is all messed up, and everybody in the village says "How wonderful!"...