Short of that, what are we gonna do? We tried for 20 years, but this is what we left:Unfortunately, in 20 years, no one has shown this result can be averted. It can only be postponed, which is all that we've done for decades, at astronomical expense. https://t.co/h8gpmDMwfL
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 12, 2021
As the State Department official said yesterday (I think it was the State Department speaking), about all we have left is to not recognize any government that takes control of Afghanistan by force. And get as many countries as we can to refuse to recognize such a government, too.Even some in the West now admit that the Afghan soldiers lack the will to fight their Talib cousins. They are surrendering without a fight. #Afghanistan#BlameGameOnPakistanpic.twitter.com/zqYOgsDgGt
— Asfandyar Bhittani (@BhittaniKhannnn) August 12, 2021
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 13, 2021Or we could be asking “What the f*ck were we doing there in the first place?” And I mean going back 20 years. Punishing the Taliban for housing Al Qaeda (anybody remember them?)? Yeah, how’d that punishment work out?
Slice it any way you want to, it's Vietnam redux: we had no business being there. Historic irony? We at least had treaty obligations to 'Nam, and we were backing up the French when we started in. Turned out those weren't good enough reasons, either.“To those who were paying attention, there was a grim inevitability to the week’s events. The Pentagon has warned every one of the last four Presidents that an abrupt U.S. withdrawal would lead to some version of the Afghan military debacle we are seeing this week.” Read @sbg1: https://t.co/yOu57ApkaM
— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) August 13, 2021
When will we ever learn?
Conserve energy, make the price of oil crash, starve them of the money from their patrons? I might feel sorry for the Women and minorities in Afghanistan but I feel as sorry for the slaves in North Korea, and so many in other places. It is exactly what the critics of going to war in Afghanistan said would happen 20 years ago, you can't impose democracy from North America on people who don't want it. The best we can take from this is the dangers of that kind of clan based society and rampant corruption. I think the best thing would have been to arm and train the women to slaughter their oppressors.
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