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How could it have gone worse?
by thepasswordis 5y ago
How could it have gone worse?
- jacobolus 5y agoThe most obvious and plausible counterfactual worse result: US leaders indecisively bow to DOD/military contractor pressure and stay in Afghanistan for 20 more years of occupation, and the US continues supporting an unpopular kleptocratic puppet government, dumping more weapons into the country, lying to the US public, etc. but doesn’t make any more progress than it has in the past 20 years, a lot more Afghans and thousands more US soldiers die, another trillion dollars get diverted from more productive projects, and the eventual result – when a leader finally comes along with the courage to end the occupation – is the same.