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"two decades of destructing Afghanistan" Clearly you know nothing of Afghanistan, our mission there, and what we did asides from blow up terrorists. We built r
by meatsauce 4y ago
"two decades of destructing Afghanistan"
Clearly you know nothing of Afghanistan, our mission there, and what we did asides from blow up terrorists. We built roads, energy and data infrastructure, government buildings, and trained countless Afghans on everything from construction to IT to self-defense.
There was certainly mission creep and mistakes were certainly made, there is no arguing that.
Nevertheless, we invested more money into building Afghanistan than we did dropping bombs on caves and desert compounds.
Then the Biden administration handed it all to the Taliban, who sold some of it to China.
- cmmeur01 4y ago“Invested” or “paid contractors exorbitant amounts” to do those things the American public (average person not corporate imperial America) would see no benefit from?
- jl2718 4y agoCorrect but irrelevant. I was there and did all that, and most of the people with me would have agreed with the expressed sentiment as it relates to taxes.
- kmos17 4y agoIt is not the Biden admin that handed it over, the deal for the hand off was negotiated and signed by the previous admin.
- epakai 4y agoTrump had a "credible deterrent" that was going to magically maintain order after we left. Obviously nothing Biden could have been privy to despite leading the same military and nation.
- fuzzfactor 4y agoI think with 20/20 hindsight lots of taxpayers would have preferred more of the money to be spent in the USA rather than Afghanistan. Others who see no worthwhile reason for that much tax to be levied in the first place. That's 20/20 hindsight for you.
- Pigalowda 4y agoAre you still drinking the Kool aid? Officers tend to have an existential crisis whenever their missions don't work out. Afghanistan has rotten substrate - with all of its absurd "green on blue" attacks, the panicky morale of its military, the corruption and kickbacks, its lack of education and religious fundamentalism, it's misogyny and pederasty, and it's general incompetence. They are hopeless but we couldn't let go. We had 20 years of Afghanistan showing its worth - and it was not $2T. Look at Ukraine and how effective their citizenry is when they are given NATO training and equipment. When Russia invaded did you see Ukrainian men fleeing and falling off of airplane landing gear? Ukraine is worth $2T and 20 years.