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I'm from the UK rather than the US and, although I'm no fan of the way we pulled out of Afghanistan (it has a certain sense of washing our hands of the situatio
by bartread 5y ago
I'm from the UK rather than the US and, although I'm no fan of the way we pulled out of Afghanistan (it has a certain sense of washing our hands of the situation about it given how involved we were in creating that situation), in general I do think we might be better to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries that we ill-understand. The other most obvious canonical example here would be Iraq. Saddam was a complete scumbag but, honestly, WTF were we thinking? We basically had a very large hand in giving birth to IS and allowing them to spread, and look at all the trouble that's caused.
- lostlogin 5y ago> I do think we might be better to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries that we ill-understand. It’s been hundreds if not thousands of years at this point. Leaving it behind seems incredibly unlikely. Ditching empire and empire building by a few countries would be an amazing thing to observe. My fear would be the various groups and countries that would likely seek to fill the void.