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"There is no doubt we have won the war. This is why they are signing a peace treaty." - Chief Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai Well, they disagree with you.

• ALittleLight 7y ago
  They disagree with simple reality. As I laid out before, they won no significant battles, killed a relatively small amount of our people (relative to the number of theirs we killed, but also to something like the regular suicide rate). The damage they did, as you alluded to earlier, was almost entirely in the form of making us detonate expensive ordinance on them and pay people to occupy their country for decades. At every moment it was US decision makers deciding what would happen, from deciding that the invasion would start, that the occupation would continue, until the US decided the occupation would cease. The Taliban may say whatever they like, but that doesn't make it so. It's simply wrong to claim they won or the US lost. It is good that our interests have aligned and the war will stop.
  • detaro 7y ago
    The Taliban quite likely will be back to their goal quite quickly: the ruling power of an islamist state Afghanistan. If that's the "aligned interest" the US fought for, it could have had that a lot cheaper.