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Yes, it's tragic no doubt, but the biggest mistake imo was when we decided to try and run the country ourselves even though all previous powers had tried and failed. Now the best thing we can do is to try and help those dispossessed as much as possible.
There's a lot of people fleeing for there being a preference for the Taliban. A lot of fear and feeling helplessness for someone who is preferred.
One really important thing (and positive) is that we have demonstrated that we didn't go to Afghanistan to kill everyone. We never wanted the land for ourselves, and we didn't try to take it. We could have. I realize that we did a lot of things wrong, but we got that right.
I didn't say every single Afghan was welcoming them with open arms, of course.
What reality are you living in? We just install puppet regimes, open up shop for corporations to exploit the situation and maintain troops there to remind of them of who is running the show. What do you think an occupation is? It's another form of imperialism. Now I see that establishment "liberals" are promoting "humanitarian imperialism" by running all these tear jerker stories about the people suffering under the Taliban, as if they gave a **** about their well-being while we were destroying their country for a few decades. I'm sure blowing those people away with missiles will alleviate their suffering! I mean, it didn't work before but let's try again?
The only thing I'll disagree with is the US went in with no intent of removing the Taliban. This only occurred because the Taliban wouldn't give us Al-Qaeda.
No, not I'm not claiming altruism which I think should be clear from my post. We showed that we didn't want the land and weren't there to kill everybody nor to annex territory. That's all.
Most of the listed reasons make no sense. The last one is merely facetious. Sure, claim it is all about heroin. Go for it. Believe that if you like, but no US citizen believes its worthwhile to invade a country over that.
We gave them no input into what government was installed there. As we pumped money into the country, they became more corrupt. The people there had no respect for a corrupt system that didn't fit their traditional culture. The Taliban on the other hand fervently believed in their ideology which I refuse to call religion.
Originally it was to punish the Taliban for not giving us Al-Qaeda and also to eradicate Al-Qaeda. Unfortunately it morphed into trying to create a nation in our own image. Whatever the reason was for this is complicated. It was a delusion we could do something good by doing this. It was a way to make us look glorious.
You got that right!
I was impressed by all the well-considered and clear-thinking reasons in that list as well, such as the reason for the war was to discount the military votes so Trump would lose.
Why do people give any credibilty to stuff some dude just pulls out of his warped imagination?
I'm convinced most Afghans want the Taliban there.
That's obvious. They never wanted us there in the first place. Just leave those people alone and mind our own business.
I'm inclined to agree although I think its a potentially grave mistake at the same time.
