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In reply to the discussion: Please Think Back on When and Why We Went to Afghanistan [View all]AngryOldDem
(14,065 posts)I have to admit the longer I watch the talking heads, Im getting angrier at the Biden bashing. Biden made a decision that his predecessors knew had to be made, but couldnt. Sometimes such decisions have tragic consequences for innocent people. Thats exactly WHY we need to know our reasons for going into a country, what our purposes are, and what our endgame is. Bin Laden, letss face it, was just a convenient excuse in 2011. We got him. Yet, we still stayed, to fight the Taliban and Al Queda, nation-build, whatever. This became land-office business, though, for the insatiable war trade.
It was the very definition of insanity keep on doing the same thing and expecting a different result. What hubris to think we could effect change in Afghanistan when so many would-be conquerors over the centuries have failed.
Afghanistan was doomed to fail from the start. There was going to be no good, tidy end to this, and enough blood has been spilled. Enough.
I commend Biden for having the courage to end it.