[Tell It Right]

Let's be honest. Part of the reason the large countries "fail" to takeover Afghanistan is there's not much there worth taking over -- as long as Afghanistan sells poppy at a reasonable price.

Otherwise any one of the big boy nations would have taken over Afghanistan easily if they had had the stomach for it. After 9/11 we should have killed as many people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and maybe Saudi Arabia as needed for them to surrender. If they didn't surrender, they'd all die.

As it stands we did kill a lot of people in Afghanistan. I can't stand the messaging Bush gave (win over hearts and minds and all that garbage). But it is what it is and what we should do now is trumpet the hundreds of thousands of people who died in Afghanistan, that it's many times more than coalition forces deaths and 9/11 deaths, and that more of the same will happen in the middle east if we're attacked again.

So yes, complain about Biden's withdrawal strategy. Yes, complain about Bush. But the main message ought to be that the tons of deaths in Afghanistan is Exhibit A to never attack the U.S.

[woodbutcher1963]

I always thought when they initially had Osama cornered in Tora Bora they should have called in a special air strike.
Nuke the whole area. Kill everything in that area in one strike.

Osama would have never escaped to Pakistan.

[woodbutcher1963]

I forgot:

THEN LEAVE AFGHANISTAN

It would have showed the world that if you attack the USA, you will die with extreme prejudice