“What did we accomplish in 18 years, that we didnt accomplish in one year, and could have then left?”
I don’t think anyone who hasn’t been to Afghanistan can fully appreciate what a shithole it is. I was naively in support of the war there until I WENT there. Then I realized it would take 100,000 troops there for 100 years to drag it past 1500 AD.
Came home in 2007 wishing for an immediate pull out. Wish we had just bombed them and promised to do it again.....
GWB listened to that idiot Colin Powell who said you break it you own it BS and started this quagmire of trying to build a modern nation in a country and culture willfully stuck in the 7th century. Whos crazier the Afghanistan goat humpers or the Colin Powells which infest the US government and military.
We killed bin laden, we destroyed al-aqaeda, and punished the Taliban, declare victory and go home!