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The Onion Predicted US's Middle of the Night Pullout from Bagram in Afghanistan
- vfclists 5y agoCareful it doesn't get flagged like the prediction of the Juneteenth holiday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzttSUC0Pzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzttSUC0Pzw
- pstuart 5y agoThere are lessons to be learned from this fiasco, but I doubt the country will collectively heed them. The US is not one bit safer today from this, and all that money has been flushed down the toilet. Meanwhile we're squabbling over how to pay for fixing our crumbling infrastructure. Sigh.
- myth_drannon 5y ago31 years ago another occupier left this country. https://youtu.be/Xzsjys0bUsM https://youtu.be/Xzsjys0bUsM
- pstuart 5y agoAided by our support of the local Freedom Fighters, the Taliban.
- cyanydeez 5y agoand has never successfully built any other nation.
- pstuart 5y agoIt's going to be China's turn now, and I'd put money on them succeeding.
- perl4ever 5y agoIs it really valid to talk about "the Taliban" over a period of somewhere on the order of 40 years? The term referred to a particular group and generation, I thought, that grew up in the wake of the Soviet invasion. Obviously the young men with rocket launchers in the news are not the same people decade after decade.
- awiesenhofer 5y agoFrom the original Onion article: > "The U.S. told us they cared and that they had our best interests at heart, and I really thought this time might be different, but they were just as selfish as the Soviets and the British," said Pashtun tribal leader Ashraf Rahman Durrani, referring to Afghanistan's history of abusive relationships. "We're a strong, proud nation, though. We've been through a lot, and we'll find a way to get through this, too." https://www.theonion.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night-1819572778 https://www.theonion.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanista...