schmidlap
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After having insisted that the U.S. immediately withdraw from Afghanistan for years,
On February 29, 2020, Trump and the Taliban signed a conditional peace deal which required that U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan within 14 months.
APRIL 19, 2021
If you are of the opinion that the President should have deferred withdrawal until September 11 rather than following Trump's recommendation that it be sooner, I doubt that would have made any difference, not even if we deferred it for another 20 years and another $2.2 trillion sunk into the fiasco.
The invasion was doomed from the start. Obviously, a targeted police action to destroy al-Qaeda rather than a 2 decade deployment fighting the Taliban that had never threatened the U.S. would have been far preferable.
Such imperialistic caprices and meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations don't go well.
"My dear boy, as long as you do not invade Afghanistan
you will be absolutely fine."
PRIME MINISTER HAROLD MacMILLAN
Bush initiated the war against Afghanistan in 2001 as part of his so-called “war on terror,”
claiming that U.S, military occupation would destroy Al-Qaeda bases and remove the threat of terrorism.
Prescient voices from Afghanistan:
"Our people have been caught in the claws of the monster of a vast war and destruction. ... The continuation of US attacks and the increase in the number of innocent civilian victims not only gives an excuse to the Taliban, but also will cause the empowering of the fundamentalist forces in the region and even in the world."
— RAWA, Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan, October 11, 2001
[RAWA statement on the US strikes on Afghanistan]
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