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In reply to the discussion: Please Think Back on When and Why We Went to Afghanistan [View all]Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Iraq was always the end game after 9/11. Afghanistan was the road to it.
If what I have read in the last couple days is correct what we are seeing was always going to happen no matter when we actually left. Trump/Pompeo did not even include the Afghan government in the negotiations in Doha with the Taliban. Trump arranged for 5000 Taliban prisoners to be released one of which is now going to be president there. Over the last few months Karazi has been working with the Taliban and they have been going from village to village to village paying of any government agencies or military there to stand down surrender when we leave.
This was always going to happen like this. I dont blame Biden at all for deciding to pull the remaining ~2500 troops out instead of surging 25-50,000 in order to stay and maintain
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As the op said we should have never gone there. Russia was there for 10yrs and couldnt stabilize anything, thanks in large part to the CIA. Afghanistan has 2000+yr history of religious conflict it has never wanted Democracy so there is no way to make that happen unless we are willing to stay there for generations running the place. President Biden did what Bush wouldnt do, Obama didnt do and Trump disastrously agreed to and IMO consciously set as a time bomb for Biden if he lost the election. Most of President Bidens team had only had 3 months on the job by May 2021. Because of Trumps petulance there was no transition that took place in DOD or State Department or any department for that matter.
This disaster rest solely on the shoulders of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Trump/Pompeo and history needs to reflect that accordingly.