“Who ever said that was all the invasion of Afghanistan was to achieve? No one.”
LOL! Are you serious?
We gave them an ultimatum to turn him over. Otherwise we didnt give two shakes about the Taliban. You think we went there to make Afghanistan safe for democracy?
The only mistake they made is that they didn’t. And they got pounded until Bin Laden was dead.
That is the moment we should have roll-out of there.
“The only mistake they made is that they didn’t.”
They didn’t because ideologically they couldn’t, and were they in the same position today they still couldn’t. They were removed from governing Afghanistan because we could never again trust them; they had already considered us their enemy; and they still do. They intend to make war in Afghanistan until people like you outnumber people like me and our government is forced to let them occupy Afghanistan again. You foolishly think that will give US peace. It won’t. They will again become a sanctuary state for jihadists; just as is true now in the areas of Afghanistan they can control. They are NOT jihadists BECAUSE we are there. That preceded our being there and any use of that idea now is an excuse for blaming us for their belligerence.