Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
The resources you’re referring to during the first decade were not used for “fiddling”, but well-spent on capturing and killing bin Laden and negating the threat of al-Qaeda. The occupation of Afghanistan following the raid on bin-Laden continued to be costly without reaping similar tangible rewards and that’s all the more reason for the US to subsequently withdraw from Afghanistan.
The US didn’t “lose Afghanistan”, they stopped pouring resources and lives into a very costly and difficult occupation without significant local support that didn’t make any sense or reap any benefit after achieving their stated goals of capturing and killing bin laden and dismantling al-Qaeda.
Nobody has forgotten Afghanistan, there just isn’t a foreign power actively occupying and policing their country anymore.
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Assange warned us that the war was not to be won. It was to be continually fought.
Kinda like Ukraine now.
Dude, you should probably read up on the history of Afghanistan before you start saying “America is to blame”.
I mean, yeah… America IS to blame… among others. And it goes back WAY further than 20 some odd years.
Important reminder that the USA financed the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war. See Operation Cyclone.
Important reminder that in that war, Russia was yet again the invader
Hell, see Rambo 3.
The resources you’re referring to during the first decade were not used for “fiddling”, but well-spent on capturing and killing bin Laden and negating the threat of al-Qaeda. The occupation of Afghanistan following the raid on bin-Laden continued to be costly without reaping similar tangible rewards and that’s all the more reason for the US to subsequently withdraw from Afghanistan.
The US didn’t “lose Afghanistan”, they stopped pouring resources and lives into a very costly and difficult occupation without significant local support that didn’t make any sense or reap any benefit after achieving their stated goals of capturing and killing bin laden and dismantling al-Qaeda.
Nobody has forgotten Afghanistan, there just isn’t a foreign power actively occupying and policing their country anymore.
Somehow, this chuckles me. What if Americans lose their country in less than a week?