US and Taliban signs deal for an American withdrawal
US and Taliban have signed a deal aiming at ending their 18 year old conflict.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51689443 Headline should read : US and Taliban sign deal for an American withdrawal. Asking the authority to make the correction. |
Some voices especially in Britain have been saying for a long time that the campaign was futile. The Brits were once responsible for Helmand province.
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Time will only tell if this will another April 30th 1975 moment in U.S. history.
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As usual, T'rump screwed the pooch on this attempt to find peace in Afghanistan. Oh well, everything Vlad's puppet touches dies.
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He'll call it a "win", they call it "victory!".
Who will the rational world observers believe? |
O well what a mess we have left behind.....we should of handled this differently.
You would think we would of learned something in the twenty years over there. Not just spent money and life's. A sad day for Afghanistan. In the end we trained and equipped a army, to see it just melt away, morph into a Taliban one. The world gave Afghanistan twenty years to get their act together. This was a time for them to stand on their own. Could we of handled it better, YES! We dropped the ball at the end and ran away! |
Armies must have basic, instinctive loyalty to their leaders. The Afghan recruits always knew their leaders were corrupt Anerican puppets. Nothing could overcome that, and you had a force totally unwilling to fight and die.
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The US has failed once again to learn from our own recent history...
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I recommend that you fellows (re)read A Bright and Shining Lie which lays out in detail our failures in Vietnam which are not at all unlike our failures in Afghanistan.
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