[reardensteel]

Exactly, we should have killed the 10m or whatever it would take to send the message “don’t F with the US” right after 9/11, then left entirely with no nation building or aid.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

In 2016 the Afghanistan population was estimated at 34.7 million, up from 20 million in 2000. From Wikipedia: “The current population growth rate is 2.37%, the highest in the world outside of Africa. This population is expected to reach 82 million by 2050 if current population trends continue.”

NOBODY wants to deal with this issue. In 2007 I was in a meeting in Kabul where the French representative asked what was being done to curb population growth. At the break I overheard the President’s advisor saying he had already asked Karzai about that, but Karzai wouldn’t touch it because of the religious leaders.

So 10 million wouldn’t even take the population back to where it was when the US got involved.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Exactly, we should have killed the 10m or whatever it would take to send the message “don’t F with the US” right after 9/11, then left entirely with no nation building or aid.

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We need to leave them with the message that "war is hell", not "war brings us free stuff". The hell with nation building. Paging Gen. Sherman.