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If that wasn't bad enough, the biggest ethnic group in the country lives in a region where the border with Pakistan is drawn.huh? thats like saying
"people buy way too much into the myth that Michael Jordan is greatest basketball player of all time"
it's called the "graveyard of empires" for a reason.
uninhabitable desert, surrounded by mountain terrain filled with people who speak a totally different language, religion, and culture that is totally hostile to foreign invaders?
whatever it would cost to win it, it's clearly astronomical and totally not worth it.
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Jake tapper bumped his head. he's making zero sense.
What is Joe Biden supposed to do about Afghan Leaders peacing out of the country and handing over the capital to the Taliban in the span of a NBA finals TV Timeout???
THE AFGHAN LEADERS ARE SCAMMING YOU. WAKE UP.
huh? thats like saying
"people buy way too much into the myth that Michael Jordan is greatest basketball player of all time"
it's called the "graveyard of empires" for a reason.
uninhabitable desert, surrounded by mountain terrain filled with people who speak a totally different language, religion, and culture that is totally hostile to foreign invaders?
whatever it would cost to win it, it's clearly astronomical and totally not worth it.
you come up with the worst analogies b
All those analyst and none of them gave him the truth? Also the buck stops with him and he will have to own this."Biden: I want to leave Afghanistan, how long will it take?
Military Industrial complex: he ahhh...well we have the nation so under control, AND we've trained the afghan army so well
that they will be ready to defend their country while we withdraw slowly over the next 6 months."
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Guess what? it was all bull****, the afghan army is fake, the country was about to fall apart anyways.
How do you blame Biden when it's obvious the military is lying about the facts on the ground.
do you think biden is dumb? its not like he drew up the withdraw plans himself.
The excuse was Bin Laden but Obama just needed 6 guys to go get him.
Again, give specifics on what Biden should have done differently.
Lizzo?no cap, just googled weapons of mass destruction and all i got were pictures of fat booties and huge *******.
thats a war i'm down for
Even if the pressures of 9/11 pushes us to go into Afghanistan, the Bush Administration botched the situation on the ground well before Obama, Trump, or Biden came along
i would’ve been impressed if he called out the crappy intel but for sure it would’ve been a horrible look for him
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I wish I knew. All I know is the end result is a disaster.
For one, the US military should’ve foreseen the problem of leaving Kabul as the evacuation point. They should’ve kept Bagram open.
the humanitarian crisis left behind, the airport situation, embassies being hastily evacuated. It all seems extremely poorly planned and executed
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I wish I knew. All I know is the end result is a disaster.
For one, the US military should’ve foreseen the problem of leaving Kabul as the evacuation point. They should’ve kept Bagram open.
the humanitarian crisis left behind, the airport situation, embassies being hastily evacuated. It all seems extremely poorly planned and executed
i disagree.
tbh other than Russia in the winter, Afghanistan might be the GOAT "unconquerable nation"
I was referring to the military leaders who dropped down on all fours as soon as the Taliban got close and the president who went ghost in the middle of the night like a deadbeat dad.
of course the civilians don’t deserve this and I feel bad for them. Whole world gotta step up for our **** ups over the last 20 years and take in as many refugees as possible.
Not seems, it was. It looked like the Taliban made a surge and the decision was made to pull out rather than engage which is where the problem comes in. It’s been 50+ years since the end of Vietnam and America didn’t learn ****. I wasn’t alive then, but it’s pretty clear you got to fight your way out or leave the people behind. After 20 years of war there I think it reflects incredibly bad on everyone involved that the solution was ditch the civilians we claimed to be helping.
Also who really thought their army could stop the Taliban? The entire government was a puppet, and we had soldiers on the ground for 20 years and half of that was viscous urban warfare.
Good ******* griefYou may be correct but we won’t know because the US had a weak strategy. Especially post-taliban. I don’t understand how there was so little oversight of so much money. Which created the mafia-type corruption there. In reference to modern middle eastern history, new governments seem to also need either nationalism or religious identity to unify people. It seems that there wasn’t enough of a cultural campaign for unification. I’d never seen Afghans more divided than in recent years as more and more started to consume divisive news outlets via Facebook. There needed to be a sophisticated campaign to counteract this, and there wasn’t any real attempt. If this war was going to be won, it would have had to take pages from colonizers who knew you needed to control the populace culturally as well.