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ElatedVenusaur posted...

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.

Afganistan was not changing. People that think it was are delusional, and our presence only made us a bigger target. The fact that the left is criticizing this is like them criticizing Mike Pence for saying he agrees with Roe V Wade. It is beyond absurd. ISIS in Syria...that situation isn't changing much cause we aren't the only ones who were fighting them and they have already been driven in the a corner for about a year. Turkey and abandoning our allies, the Kurds, are the biggest negatives with leaving Iraq and Syria.