US Criticized For Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan While Just 50 Years From Victory
April 15th, 2021 - Babylon Bee
U.S.—The U.S. has been criticized for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan when the country is so close to victory, being just another 50 years away from declaring victory in the region.
Commentators, pundits, Democrats, and Republicans alike criticized the proposal to pull troops out in a few months, when if we just stay there for another few decades, victory is all but assured.
“Why are we leaving when victory is on the horizon, just a few decades away?” asked John Bolton. “We’re so close. You can’t give up right when you’re on the finish line, with a utopia in the Middle East being within our reach if we just stay there for another half-century.”
“It just doesn’t make any sense to leave now.”
At publishing time, the nation’s warmongers were relieved as they realized there’s basically zero chance we’re actually leaving Afghanistan this fall.
Afghan saying:
“You have the watch, we have the time.”
They’re right.
Their society, culture, and economy are pretty much the same as 20 years ago.
Look at ours.
The democrat party is much like the taliban. Their paramilitary troops called blm and antifa do some of the same things.
It was in a Dark Age, now it is descending deeper into it.
Let’s suppose the US “won.” What would that victory look like? The Soviets had Westernized Afghanistan such that women were being educated and could wear boots and miniskirts in public. It was probably only the United States attempting to make Afghanistan the Soviet Viet Nam that destabilized the region and turned Afghanistan into the ninth century hell it is today. Although, in truth, the Westernization of Afghanistan would probably have reversed shortly after the Soviet Union fell. The Afghan modernization was only due to the continued and oppressive presence of troops willing and able to kill anyone who wasn’t towing the line.
Given the region’s black-hole nature of cultural gravity I don’t see the US as ever “winning” the culture war. No culture war win and it doesn’t matter how much ground you control. How much blood and treasure is it worth to the American tax payer so that young Afghan women can wear miniskirts and black boots in public? While I feel sorry for anyone unlucky enough to be born in Afghanistan I don’t feel so sorry that I’d spend even a dollar to do something for them. That’s because, as a Marine friend who spent several tours there says, (approximately) “Helping them is a total waste of time and money. They lay down the weapons we gave them at the feet of the Jihadists and perform a full prostration bow. I’ve seen it and it’s disgusting. We should leave.”
In before, "we really won like we did in Vietnam/Iraq, then the Demonrats threw it away, vote Republican" people show up.
We didn't just lose - we got our asses kicked, the trail from 9/11/2001 to 4/18/21 is a trail of unmitigated failure and defeat, we are weaker, we are less secure, and we will become more so in the decade ahead.
It was worse than a crime, it was all a mistake.
And don't point out all the brave and well-executed battles that were won on the trail to disaster. There were many of those won by Germans in Russia before their cities were ground to dust, their women were raped, and a large segment of their Y-DNA erased from history before it could be passed along. None of those titanic textbook German victories on the Eastern Front added up to anything except defeat.
They’ve won the right to remain a two-bit poor ignorant hellhole - AND they’re bragging about it?
OMG
That’s so pathetic...
Go for it losers.
There will be a large slaughter of anyone who helped the US. On the plus side, let’s see if the taliban will still be getting rid of the poppy fields or use them to make money and hurt the West.
Kill em ALL and let ALLAH sort em out.
Graveyard of Empires.
Land of Bones.
History speaks for itself.
America needs to heed that long, long history.
GTFO is long overdue.
Having killed hundreds of Taliban myself, I know how difficult it is to beat a guerilla insurgency.
All an insurgency has to do to win is survive. To beat an insurgency, it would take the stomach to do what no one in the US has the stomach to do anymore.
If we stay long enough, will they have trannies competing in whatever women’s sports they have? “Our values” and everything.
If that was the only war our country lost I can live with it.
The war for America inside our borders is the one that breaks my heart.
Of course the Taliban of today say that.
The Taliban of 20 years ago, who ran the entire country and had the balls to attack the US, are all dead. Afghanistan has had many free elections, more secure than our last one. They once thought we could not do that. We did.
It is not the fault of the US military that new young people chose to repopulate the Taliban.
The lesson? Nation building in the Middle East doesn’t work as the population’s culture does not want it. If we have to do it again just nuke the bastards and leave them in their mess.
The bigger question is this:
What is the U.S. doing in Afghanistan, 8,000 miles away from the U.S. mainland, in the first place?
Why are we “fighting” a backwards, 3rd world hell hole that is not in any way a threat to us?
My niece (active military husband) told me last night her friend’s husband had been killed in Afghanistan.
So, he died defending the U.S.?
Our troops are 1/2 way around the world “defending ‘our interests’ (whatever they are) while our country is being invaded from the south and torn apart by violent revolutionaries every damn night.
Tell that to the widow.
The industrial military complex won.
Now they wanna win in russia.
We lost when the first trooper stepped onto Afghanistan. It was inevitable. And Bush knew it when he started this disaster. It was never supposed to end.
Very few people here of mentioned September 11th or Bin Laden.
Remember that we got into Afghanistan because of September 11th and because the Taliban were giving safe-haven to Bin Laden.
If people want to say we took our eyes off the ball at some point being in Afghanistan so long , let’s have that discussion. But when we first went into Afghanistan the Congressional resolution for that was action was virtually unanimous.
Did any of you oppose going into Afghanistan right after September 11th?,,
Yeah, now you can have your goats in peace.