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- London
Based on a quick reading of the Wikipedia there was some talk of restoring Mohammed Zahir Shah post the collapse of the Soviet backed government as he had pan-ethic support and his reign was seen as a fairly stable one, this never came to anything due to Pakistan's ISI. What if the Americans decide to restore him after the invasion. I know this is unlikely as American's don't like restoring and they were confident of doing nation building, but suppose he had some supporters in the state department that saw the monarchy as an institution that might have popular support and avoid the graveyard of empires fate. Do you think this would have been successful and helped with nation building?