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IkeBana » 20 Aug 2021, 8:59 am » wrote: ↑

20 Aug 2021, 8:59 am

Go **** yourself.  This is happening because when this country invaded Afghanistan with no goal other than to stage some payback that George W. Bush could play politics with...there was no plan regarding what to do about the Taliban.  And for the next 20 years, under the leadership of three presidents (two Republicans, one Democrat), they failed to go after the Taliban, defeat the Taliban, disarm the Taliban, and hang any Taliban that committed atrocities, which was most of the Taliban.  They didn't do any of that.  What they did, all three of them, was continue to try to do their nation building ****.  They tried to establish a democratic government, and an Afghan military, that would be able to do that job on the Taliban.  Why?  Because the politicians...all **** three of them...didn't want to look like the badass occupiers they would have had to look like in order to get the dismemberment of the Taliban done.  So instead we spent 20 years in Afghanistan while the politicians tried to build a non-graft ridden, non-corrupt, effective government in Kabul.  Fat **** chance.  So what have we accomplished in 20 years?  Here ya go...
20,666: US military members wounded in action in Afghanistan.(Source: Department of Defense.)2,312: US military deaths in Afghanistan.(Source: Department of Defense.)
47,245: estimated Afghan civilians killed. (Source: Costs of War Project.)458: Humanitarian aid workers killed in Afghanistan since the US invasion.(Source: Aid Worker Security Database.)74: Journalists and media workers killed in Afghanistan since the US invasion.(Source: The Committee to Protect Journalists.)RefugeesMore than 2.5 million: Afghan refugees at the end of 2020.(Source: UN.)More than 3.5 million: People now internally displaced in Afghanistan.(Source: UN.)

And now...Biden said we're done **** around playing politics in Afghanistan, we're outta here.

And assholes like you want to play politics with it.  Go **** yourself.