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If they left in 2012 the Taliban would have done then what they re doing now. There's no good leader that was willing to abandon people to that fate until the p

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  > If they left in 2012 the Taliban would have done then what they re doing now. Yes, that is my point. The options were Taliban (or other tribal groups) take over, or the US spends the next 100 years rebuilding Afghan society and waiting out for all the old people to die. > There's no good leader that was willing to abandon people to that fate until the public exhausted of the war as it has. The US public has been exhausted of spending on other nations since the 2008 recession.
  • pessimizer 5y ago
    > waiting out for all the old people to die. The young people are more militant than the old people because of the invasion; so that wouldn't work. The only thing that would work (whatever working means in this context) was a program of mass extermination and colonization. We invaded a country that was ruled by the Taliban. We installed a puppet government by force. Now that we're leaving, it's going the way of Vichy.
    • lotsofpulp 5y ago
      True, I guess I meant installing a puppet government and then letting them do the deeds over a sufficient number of generations.