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All the pipeline b.s. is irrelevant.
We went into Afghanistan as a part of our war on terrorism....we over ran Afghanistan vey quickly and drove out the terrorists.
Since we allowed them a safe haven in the tribal lands of Pakistan we felt obligated to remain in Afghanistan to keep them from returning and once again using that as a base to formulate more terroristic plots.
Whilst I still believe we should not have allowed them a safe haven those with much more info on how that would have affected Pakistan and how we needed their friendship made a decision not to pursue them into pakistan.
Thus we needed to maintain our control of Afghanistan and thus the status quo there.....we did that for 20 yrs.
Unfortunately bush got us involved in nation bldg. which most understand now was a huge mistake and that is what cost us trillions of dollars.
Our casualty rate in afghanistan was the lowest of any war we have been in.....what we needed to do was to not withdraw but stop the nation bldg and allow our troops to focus on the taliban.
We could have done that quite easily and the more technology we acquired drones etc. the easier it would have been and if we stopped funding the nation bldg. then our costs would not have been outrageous and our casualty rate would also have decreased since we were putting our troops in bad and dangerous places to maintain efforts to engage in nation bldg.
We went into Afghanistan as a part of our war on terrorism....we over ran Afghanistan vey quickly and drove out the terrorists.
Since we allowed them a safe haven in the tribal lands of Pakistan we felt obligated to remain in Afghanistan to keep them from returning and once again using that as a base to formulate more terroristic plots.
Whilst I still believe we should not have allowed them a safe haven those with much more info on how that would have affected Pakistan and how we needed their friendship made a decision not to pursue them into pakistan.
Thus we needed to maintain our control of Afghanistan and thus the status quo there.....we did that for 20 yrs.
Unfortunately bush got us involved in nation bldg. which most understand now was a huge mistake and that is what cost us trillions of dollars.
Our casualty rate in afghanistan was the lowest of any war we have been in.....what we needed to do was to not withdraw but stop the nation bldg and allow our troops to focus on the taliban.
We could have done that quite easily and the more technology we acquired drones etc. the easier it would have been and if we stopped funding the nation bldg. then our costs would not have been outrageous and our casualty rate would also have decreased since we were putting our troops in bad and dangerous places to maintain efforts to engage in nation bldg.
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