re: Serious question: What would you have done differently in Afghanistan?

cliff notes

destroy them within first 3 years

if not GTFO then. not babysit 20 years and watch this shite happen. the whole thing was blown in 2004 when it shoulda been over with taliban being wiped out via conventional or tactical nuclear means. when we were not serious nor gonna do anything to the enemy except nation build we shoulda been long gone.

As someone posted on twitter:

How to leave a country
- evacuate citizens
- evacuate embassy staff
- pull back military protection
- declare hostitlity over

Biden did this in reverse.

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Serious question: What would you have done differently in Afghanistan?

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Never became “allies” with Pakistan for starters

If Biden was serious about a pullout. He would have called an expert like kamala.

In the beginning, use Reagan's Lybia strategy. Start blowing up key shite everyday at noon until they produced Bin Laden.

Now, as we are leaving, follow Trump's plan which used Truman's method. We are leaving, you do anything aggressive and we wipe the map clean. You keep on and we get another piece of the map.

On or about September 12, 2001, I would have asked the Taliban, nicely, politely to deliver Bin Laden and his inner circle to the United States at the Pakistan border in 72 hours.

Or else.

BS blaming anyone but biden. GEt the people out first. GEt the billion $$ if weaponry out next. Then get our military out.Dont suck off biden

I would have told them this. We trained your military how to defend yourself. We are leaving now. You can either sink or swim. Let us know how it works out for you.

We could have gotten a much better deal in 2001 than we eventually got, which suggests maybe negotiating then would have been better than the alternative. There is lots I would have done differently. Never going would have been optimal, because it was always going to be a waste. A pointless endeavor, and the groups that helped supply the cash to the Taliban, namely Gulf Arabs, won't ever suffer the consequences due to the sheer amount of money from them in Washington.

the only thing that could have been done differently would be to have more troops on the ground between 2001-2005 to jeep the insurgents in the south under control, and we could have the used our aid resources to build up the north economically. we should have also put more pressure on karzai to get his government under control. instead the whole country became an afterthought when iraq started and we let the north slowly fall apart while doing a kill, bribe, retreat, lose ground kill again thing in the south. i don't think any other outcome was possible after 2006 or so. we just babysat the inevitable