US and Taliban signs deal for an American withdrawal

[Dondilion]

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.

[Dondilion]

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.

[Oerets]

Time will only tell if this will another April 30th 1975 moment in U.S. history.

[bobabode]

As usual, T'rump screwed the pooch on this attempt to find peace in Afghanistan. Oh well, everything Vlad's puppet touches dies.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

US and Taliban have signed a deal aiming at ending their 18 year old conflict.

Bah! This is merely Donny casting about for a "win" before the election. There's no there there. You're gullible enough to believe there is, lol.

[Pio1980]

He'll call it a "win", they call it "victory!".
Who will the rational world observers believe?

[Oerets]

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!

[donquixote99]

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.

[Oerets]

The US has failed once again to learn from our own recent history...

[finnbow]

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.