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The English, the Russians, now the USA - we're being driven out of Kabul. I'm sure other armies have been driven out of Kabul but those are the three latest ones.
We tried to negotiate with the Taliban. What were we thinking? They don't change, they don't bargain... they only want to subjugate and conquer.
We couldn't mold the Vietnamese into a fighting force, we couldn't mold the Afgans into a fighting force. What the hell is wrong with our training?
Twenty years, billions of dollars, thousands of lives - for nothing. *That* is the reality we now face.
Once they've killed all their enemies and non-Taliban and shoved all half the population into prisons, they'll start ramping up the poppy cultivation to make heroin - lot of it - because they know Westerners are stupid and will pay big money for cheap illegal heroin.
I just hope we can make room here in the USA for the refugees escaping the brutal Taliban. There's going to be a lot of them.
We tried to negotiate with the Taliban. What were we thinking? They don't change, they don't bargain... they only want to subjugate and conquer.
We couldn't mold the Vietnamese into a fighting force, we couldn't mold the Afgans into a fighting force. What the hell is wrong with our training?
Twenty years, billions of dollars, thousands of lives - for nothing. *That* is the reality we now face.
Once they've killed all their enemies and non-Taliban and shoved all half the population into prisons, they'll start ramping up the poppy cultivation to make heroin - lot of it - because they know Westerners are stupid and will pay big money for cheap illegal heroin.
I just hope we can make room here in the USA for the refugees escaping the brutal Taliban. There's going to be a lot of them.
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Yes, that too. The Afghan government literally just gave up as soon as the uS withdrew support. The Taliban just took Kabul without a shot fired and the Afghan president has abdicated.