Also, we could have gotten out 20 years ago if Dubya hadn't been so arrogant. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te...
Things have been bad in Afghanistan since the 70's, but there were bright moments during the occupation, or what you want to call this period that is now coming to an end.
I have some personal ties to the region, and I sincerely hope things clear up somehow. Afghanistan deserves none of this.
True, but the US could have made a dent in that by simply not supporting and financing the Taliban. When they help exterminate all of the secular opposition to administrations they are friendly with, the inevitable results are theocracies that are armed to the teeth.
Politically, invading Afghanistan to get Osama was impossible to avoid since something had to be done. But after Osama was killed, I do not understand what possible motivation the US had for staying there other than enriching players in the military industrial complex.
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.
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.
This is not true. Our only accusation was that they had allowed a group of Saudis to live there.
I will be very glad to see even 1km of straight road in that country.
These billions in infrastructure, and development aid are nowhere to be seen in Afghanistan.
Could have invaded the actually bloody country responsible for 9/11 instead of a central Asian backwater.
Could have reigned in your massive military industrial complex which essentially demands wars for profits....
What am i kidding... 'MERICA!