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Topic	Taliban celebrating news the US is withdrawing from Afghanistan
ElatedVenusaur 12/21/18 8:11:55 PM #11:	We should have left ages ago. Our presence is not creating stability so much as it is delaying the inevitable. We created a government that was less capable of serving Afghans than the damned Taliban. That's the take-away here. I guess the Afghans can add us to the list of empires they've stymied. Syria, IMO, is a different can-of-worms where our presence is actually making things better, because we have a stable and relatively decent proxy which we are assisting. <cite>ElatedVenusaur posted [p:914522303] in Taliban ce... [t:77323835]...</cite> <quote>We should have left ages ago. Our presence is not creating stability so much as it is delaying the inevitable. We created a government that was less capable of serving Afghans than the damned Taliban. That's the take-away here. I guess the Afghans can add us to the list of empires they've stymied. Syria, IMO, is a different can-of-worms where our presence is actually making things better, because we have a stable and relatively decent proxy which we are assisting.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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