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That was their mistake, however. There was no need for a puppet government to be democratic in form, beyond the US' own need to present themselves as "champions of freedom and democracy".

If that was the goal, why did they spend so much time in the Afganistan setting up a democratic government? All they had to do was to give power to tribal chiefs.

It was a failure because stated US goal was nation-building: that is, creation of a democratic Afghanistan. They failed in that, and it was thus a failure. But fact that pulling out meant that the campaign was a failure does not mean that pullout was a mistake.