If 3000 - 5000 troops could keep Afghanistan stabilized would you be in favor of just doing that? Having hundreds of thousands of displaced people seems like it is not going to be ideal. The taliban is probably not that well trained and probably won't be too hard to keep out.
Yes I'm your everyday American and I want my tax dollars and brothers and sisters to spill blood so they can bomb brown people in a desert on the other side of the world in order to get defense contractors really-really rich. We can pretend to put it behind the guise of caring about human rights, while we kill their civilians, and continue to be allied with Saudi Arabia and ignore the dozens of other countries with severe human rights abuse all over the world.
No, it's like that George Will quote about Barry Glodwater: "The American century is over, it just took twenty years to count the votes. I can tell you where I bought this bowtie and talk about baseball some if that metaphor is too boring or confusing." Elective wars are the tabloid magazines and Snickers bars of American politics, weird impulse buys, made with lies and poison, that we still indulge despite a full cart and no more room in the budget.
On his sixteenth birthday the boy gets a horse as a present. All of the people in the village say, “Oh, how wonderful!” The Zen master says, “We’ll see.” One day, the boy is riding and gets thrown off the horse and hurts his leg. He’s no longer able to walk, so all of the villagers say, “How terrible!” The Zen master says, “We’ll see.” Some time passes and the village goes to war. All of the other young men get sent off to fight, but this boy can’t fight because his leg is messed up. All of the villagers say, “How wonderful!” The Zen master says, “We’ll see.”
I’ve wanted to leave Afghanistan for forever. I’d also like to see us leave Korea, Germany and Japan. Cold war ended 30 years ago. WW2 ended 76 years ago. End the permanent military missions.
There are many things going on here, the main 5 I see 1. Videos of people falling to their death for US military planes is fcked 2. We didn't evacuate a lot of people that need to be evacuated, and we didn't retrieve or destroy weapons/vehicles 3. The media has always been extremely pro-war, they are dog piling right now 4. The right-wing of the country are playing politics as usual 5. Taliban took over, the fake Afgan Gov and army we propped up said "LOL we're out too" All of this adds up to the outrage that we're seeing But at the end of the day, even if it could have been done better, Biden did the correct thing, getting out Afgan is still a great moment for the American people.
Would countries be willing to take in refugees if people aren't seeing the craziness that is happening in Afghanistan right now? Whenever the US decided to leave you would still have the madness because you still need to people on the ground to operate the country. Who the heck is going to want to stay.
LOL, we just spent 20 years there and looked to have accomplished pretty much nothing, so now we should send people back again? if 20 years of work can get toppled in like a week, then u FAILED, and u failed miserably what a waste of time, money, resources, and lives
You know how some CNBC shows have a different buy recommendation every day, but no sane, solvent person owns 250 new stocks every year?
If you're not sure why we shouldn't send troops back, then you are completely oblivious to the grand picture. Nobody wants us there. Just you and anyone who profited from US occupation, including the puppet gov who was doing very well with US bribes.
