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If the USA was really "nation-building", we'd see the advances you mention. But they're only interested in corporate profits, and so the USA left Iraq and Afghanistan a huge mess. We get our oil (or other resources) or we'll take our ball and go home!The United States spent almost $100 billion on recreating and equipping the Afghan army, so that the Taliban would hold a victory parade over the United States in the center of Kabul on american armored vehicles taken from the surrendered Afghan army...
The wildest corruption of capitalism in the non-financial (financial is all super-thievish) sphere can be understood by the example of Afghanistan, for the "restoration and stability" of which the United States spent $2 trillion. The country is in ruins and savagery. Where's the money? In offshores of ober-thieves, of course!
Can you imagine what kind of paradise could be built for $2 trillion in a country with a population of 32 million people, if not for total theft?
Smart-mouthed punk, Trumpolini, your favorite dictator, made the deal with the Taliban which screwed this up. And under Dubya, Obama and Trump there was no coherent mission, and so the enterprise was doomed to failure from conception, and that conception was the work of the Dubya Administration.Whenever I see fascist idiocy, it's from a Bidenite. Can the insults, little boy. You black lefts are attempting to destroy democracy in this country but fortunately you'll likely suffer such a high death rate from Delta variant (which should be re-named the Cuomo or Biden variant) that you'll be unable to pull of your coup.
Obama and Biden screwed up Afghanistan with his deal with the Taliban, duh. Have you ever, anywhere, at any time had a clue, boy?
If the USA was really "nation-building", we'd see the advances you mention. But they're only interested in corporate profits, and so the USA left Iraq and Afghanistan a huge mess. We get our oil (or other resources) or we'll take our ball and go home!
Exactly. More than a hundred years ago, bankers and moneylenders prevailed in the competition with the industrial bourgeoisie. The industrial bourgeoisie at least produces something material, something that can be touched and used. Moneylenders make money out of thin air. A much more profitable business.If the USA was really "nation-building", we'd see the advances you mention. But they're only interested in corporate profits, and so the USA left Iraq and Afghanistan a huge mess.
He is a. communist plant. Best to be ignored.Sinajuavi you are a RACIST!!!! and bigot ..
Trump freeing 5,000 Taliban fighters last year didn't help matters.
The last thing we need is a rushed, chaotic Afghanistan pulloutRemaining in Afghanistan forever never made sense, but a rushed, chaotic departure of US forces — as that took place at Bagram Airfield last week — is senseless, too.
The last thing we need is a rushed, chaotic Afghanistan pullout
Remaining in Afghanistan forever never made sense, but a rushed, chaotic departure of US forces — as that took place at Bagram Airfield last week — is senseless, too.nypost.com
Afghan soldiers who’ll now defend the base were caught off guard when generators suddenly shut down and lights went out as they sat for dinner. Even the facility’s new Afghan commander, Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, didn’t know the Americans had skedaddled until later.
“We [heard] some rumor that the Americans had left . . . and finally by 7 o’clock in the morning . . . it was confirmed,” Kohistani said.
The move set off a mad rush by looters to clean out the place. It also fueled resentment among America’s Afghan allies. “In one night, [the Americans] lost all the good will of 20 years by leaving the way they did,” one soldier told the Associated Press.
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“The loss of terrain and the rapidity of that loss of terrain has to be concerning” because morale “matters,” frets US Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, who’s overseeing the withdrawal. “What you don’t want to have happen is that the people lose hope.”
President Joe Biden argues that post-pullout, we can use all our tools to “defend ourselves” as needed, while maintaining the status quo indefinitely could cost trillions and risk more US lives. Fair enough — but surely even Biden’s folks could’ve taken care to depart without making it seem like all is already lost.
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And signing an “agreement” with the Taliban that they clearly had no intention of abiding by, which they regularly violated as they repositioned their forces. They only part they was not attacking US troops.Trump freeing 5,000 Taliban fighters last year didn't help matters.
