We have spent twenty years and trillions of dollars pretending to fight a loosely organized group of illiterate goatherders. We have more carrier ships than the rest of the world combined, two fifth generation fighter aircraft when the rest of the world doesn’t even have one, all of the expensive weapons and money to support development for more. The best trained and best equipped troops in history, multiple redundant echelons of special operations forces in different branches. Still, we can’t compel goatherders in Afghanistan to submit to our will.
America doesn’t fight wars to win them, it fights wars to make sure tax dollars stay flowing to defense contractors. If we fought wars to win them, we would have won long ago.
Gee I thought we fighting in Afghanistan to keep the heroin flowing?
Is there any other viable reason to stay in Afghanistan?
They produce literally nothing. They are a land locked mountainous country of little significance. They control no major trade routes other than the home of the poppy fields. They have no oil.
I think they may have some lithium.
Maybe there is a great worldwide demand for 1980s Toyota Tacomas and Datson pick up trucks.
That is ALL because of the CIA.
This.