A couple of months of daily B-52 raids until the rubble was bouncing was the only commitment we should have made in that forsaken land.
No one has ever tamed Afghanistan.
We should not have even tried.
We fought in Afghanistan because GW Bush was stupid enough to believe he could supplant a committed death cult with a Jeffersonian republic.
And everyone around him was similarly stupid.
DAMN SICKENING.
Democrats Lost Sight of Why We Went to War in Afghanistan: Until another 9-11 happens.
Sometime around 2019 we had the first group of U.S. military personnel sent to Afghanistan who weren't even alive on 9/11.
That just goes to show how ludicrous the whole thing was.
By the time that retarded baboon George W. Bush left office, the military campaign in Afghanistan had already lasted longer than the U.S. involvement in World Wars I and II combined.
We fought the taleban back within about 8 weeks. We won that war, but once again lost the peace. All this nation-building bullshiite wasn’t worth a penny from us nor a minute of our time.
from my home page
I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
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It was fortuitous that we had that base to project power, maintain air superiority, gather intelligence, and rapidly deploy forces when needed. Afghanistan had become peaceful and it was stupid to give up such an important base, given the geopolitical changes since 9/11 (including the Russian takeover of Crimea and Chinese industrial dominance).
We instantly went from projecting unequaled power to hostage because a dementia-ridden old man was installed into office, who was on a mission to undo everything his predecessor did for the misguided goal of restoring Obama's legacy.
-PJ
The United States went to Afghanistan because Islam is in perpetual war with the West, Al qaeda is just one head of the Hydra, cutting off one, there will always be others. For Islamist’s, the Twin Towers is just one more act of all those to come.
It was a mistake to go in there. It was twenty years ago. What were we there for, to prove we could prevail where the Russians couldn’t? Go back as far as you wish into history. It has always been the same.
My heart and soul has indelibly connected the sights at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 with the sights of the massive human desperation at the Kabul airport - the victims are joined, in life and beyond.