Wrong about Afghanistan

We were never going to stabilize Afghanistan

It was a cash cow for the military complex

Now they’ll have to find a new one

I could care less about Afghanistan, glad we withdrew however, leaving our weapons, tanks, trucks, planes, etc was STUPID

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I was all for withdrawing from Afghanistan as I thought after 20 years they could have at least held the major cities as a safe haven from Taliban barbarism. The rural areas were always going to be tribal…but assumed the govt and military wouldn’t let Kabul fall.

That was obviously wrong. Given that there needed to be a residual multi National force i Kabul to keep this from happening and our AF base should have remained open. This shite should not be allowed to happen.

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frick em. Not my problem. We have enough of a shite show going on in America for me to give two shits about them.

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Given that there needed to be a residual multi National force i Kabul to keep this from happening and our AF base should have remained open

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Unlikely to have worked. The people have little will to challenge the Taliban.

Don't believe the media reports.
The Taliban did not overrun Kabul.
Jim Jordan, Louie Gohmert and Rudy Giuliani are advising that it was a false flag operation and Kabul was actually overrun by BLM and Antifa.

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Now they’ll have to find a new one

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Why do you think they left the weapons to purposely arm the Taliban? We will be at war in Afganistan again soon

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Don't believe the media reports. The Taliban did not overrun Kabul. Jim Jordan, Louie Gohmert and Rudy Giuliani are advising that it was a false flag operation and Kabul was actually overrun by BLM and Antifa.

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Melt?

I agree with everything above.

It’s just hard to fathom how we could leave Afghanistan with the Taliban having more territory, international recognition and resources than when we got there.

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My question is, was there a reason they pulled majority of the troops, then started packing up the embassy

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Incompetence.

Every year spent fighting there, every dollar spent fighting there, every life lost fighting there was a complete waste and was always going to be no matter how long we were there. That was the reality of the situation and until civilization advances into the 21st century there that will be the result of every outside force who tries to influence that country.

That all said the irresponsibleness of withdrawing in a manner that does not allow all of the people who allied with you to find a path to safety for themselves and their families is morally unacceptable. There are people here who think the only Afghans affected are the translators. Those people are wrong. Anyone who so much as cooked a meal for an American, cut an American's hair, or sold a rug or tea to an American is going to be on the Taliban's hit list. There was a post made in another thread by someone who thought 30,000 Afghans fleeing for political asylum was an illegitimately high number. The truth is that it is a ridiculously low number when you consider how low the Taliban is going to set the treason bar. These people deserve much better than what fate is going to deal with most of them and we need to out and out demand much more from our leaders who put these people in these positions. We need to learn our lesson and stay out of the Middle East kitchen. Our foreign policy is that asshat relative that comes over to your house every holiday insisting on helping to make the holiday meal who screws up every recipe he touches. We have to yank this foreign policy out of the kitchen and sit its arse back down on the couch in front of the football game where it belongs.