How quickly Ukraine is forgotten.
Well, have fun, then. Leave us out of it.
NOPE. NOPE. and NOPE.
20 years. Thousands of lives lost. Thousands and thousand more injured. Billions and billions and billions wasted and stolen.
They had their chance. When the Taliban finally re-emerged they took Afghanistan back with barely firing a shot. Afghan police and military were laying down their weapons or joining the Taliban when they showed up in town.
Tell Hunter the Northern Alliance/Resistance has heroin and he’ll be sending them arms in a second for a cut of the action.
I wish Mr Massoud well but his cause is his and his alone. No US tax dollars or military equipment. If the Taliban are the stronger than that wretched country is all theirs. We should care less.
All we had to do was remove the few bad apples, and then a strong, pro-Western democracy would flower in Afghanstan, filling the nation with a love for individual rights, rule of law, and shopping malls.
Now?
Like it hasn’t been for several decades?
IMPEAT FOTY SIX!
Biden’s, well his admin, assumed power almost exactly 1/2 year before the disastrous pull out. It was his governments first significant action and a harbinger of things to come.
He might be our first experience with Kakistocracy in 200+ years.
In summary he stopped the Wall, killed the Keystone pipeline, put off students paying their loans back, reinstated Fauci and got the US back in WHO who had recently announced China had nothing to do with COVID (despite no evidence). He also nominated the USA’s first female director of National Security, someone who rose to some power under Obama—Arvil Haines.
That was literally his first day of executive orders.
In truth, Afghanistan has been in civil war during and since the Soviets were kicked out. There was only one “unity of mind” during the Soviet occupation - get the Soviets out. Beyond that the Afghans were at extreme divisions that remain in play today, as they did all through the U.S. engagement there.