Current Events > Should we be concerned about the Taliban taking Afghanistan?

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Wouldn't control give them better resources to orchestrate another 9/11?

Probably but Biden doesn't care

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Low quality bait

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America should indefinitely occupy every country in the world just to be safe.

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i've been saying for years we should have just carpet bombed the whole country, planted the american flag, and turned afghanistan into the 51st state, but NOBODY LISTENED!?!?!

beyond doing exactly that we were never going to stop this shit from happening. you dont spend 20 years destroying a country and expect the population to thank you for it after all.

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It was a lost cause to begin with. Either the US stayed forever or the taliban takes it back

Guess we didn't really do anything if taking our eyes off it for one second literally knocks everything back to square one.

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I thought al Qaeda did 9/11.

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RenescoStCewl posted...

I thought al Qaeda did 9/11.

Yeah, they did.

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Why should USA be concerned? We dont have people living there do we?

hockeybub89 posted...

Guess we didn't really do anything if taking our eyes off it for one second literally knocks everything back to square one.

Oppressed women and children.

Guys will be forced to wear a nasty greasy dirty beard.


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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Oppressed women and children.

Guys will be forced to wear a nasty greasy dirty beard.

I guess we should occupy North Korea for 300 years too then

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I just hope we airstrike them till we destroy every Humvee, APC, and rifle they take from Afghan security forces.

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America lost the war and that's a sting to our pride, but we're out of danger. The Taliban won't be stupid enough to attack us again knowing they suffer years of war and territorial losses as a result.

Also, don't forget that America's army was:
A) fighting two simultaneous wars in two different countries
B) comprised entirely of volunteer entries

If the Taliban attacked us again, we would have every right to draft as many eligible people as we needed to crush them. And it would be one on one this time. (No sending troops to Iraq.) I think even the majority of antiwar individuals would realize that, if the Taliban attacks us again, they won't let up until we're under Sharia Law.

And that is exactly why the Taliban won't attack us again. It's better to be feared and revered in their surrounding areas as the country that defeated America than it is invite their demise with another attack.

Its fucking sad, but we gave it the old College try, for 20 years. Time to stop throwing good after bad.

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Revnir posted...

It's just that the US spend so much fucking money getting rid of the Taliban after 2001 that them coming back just feels like all of that was done for nothing

I knew it from the start.

Like with Vietnam.

You can't fight a half ass war.

When you go to war you go all the way or don't go at all.


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Revnir posted...

It's just that the US spend so much fucking money getting rid of the Taliban after 2001 that them coming back just feels like all of that was done for nothing

It was!
https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1425895602630676481

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Honestly Afghanistan is so incredibly diverse and a lot of people are kept seperated by its terrain it was a pipe dream to try and unify the country under a western democracy.

I just hope everyone who was a US informant made it out ok but I've heard some many locals have been ghosted by us.

metallica846 posted...

We probably wont. We are leaving all our air bases behind. Maybe we fly missions from a carrier but thats a long flight just to look around.

We could keep track of them with satellites, and use drones for the strikes, refueled by drone. But then again, all that might not pass cost analysis. It just stings seeing those bastards retaking the country using American vehicles with American guns mounted on them.

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Revnir posted...

It's just that the US spend so much fucking money getting rid of the Taliban after 2001 that them coming back just feels like all of that was done for nothing

its just money

If some of the posts ITT are any indicator of average American sentiment, it's deeply depressing how deeply neoconservatism has taken root.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Guess we didn't really do anything if taking our eyes off it for one second literally knocks everything back to square one.

Or it shows how much our presence alone was doing

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Or it shows how much our presence alone was doing

Wasting money and lives, and dragging out the inevitable?

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We made so much progress in 20 years that Afghan society literally collapsed when we left.

Maybe we should occupy the entire world until the sun goes supernova.

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The US created the Taliban.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Wasting money and lives, and dragging out the inevitable?

What were the ongoing costs of staying? We have bases in plenty of countries. All the heavy lifting had been done.

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^ Umm wow, seriously?

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Cheater87 posted...

^ Umm wow, seriously?

Thats just a troll. It posted the same thing in two other threads.

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Axiom posted...

It was a lost cause to begin with. Either the US stayed forever or the taliban takes it back

this, all that war accomplished was fattening pocketbooks for private partners and justify bullshit like the patriot act. It never should have happened, sucks all around for normal folk

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FortuneCookie posted...

America lost the war and that's a sting to our pride, but we're out of danger.

Nah, thats historical revisionism.

You cant say US lost the war when they literally dismantled the ruling government and its armed forces, then controlled the nation for two decades. It was not American soil, so they were inevitably going to leave. They trained and supplied the local Afghan forces to protect their country, but apparently a lot of them dont really want to do that.

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It's been Vietnam 2.0 from the get go.

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Its pretty much a lost cause. Not really our problem honestly.

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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Nah, thats historical revisionism.

You cant say US lost the war when they literally dismantled the ruling government and its armed forces, then controlled the nation for two decades. It was not American soil, so they were inevitably going to leave. They trained and supplied the local Afghan forces to protect their country, but apparently a lot of them dont really want to do that.

it depends on what the goals of the war was
was the goal of the war just to dismantle a government and occupy land for two decades?
or was it to create a safer world free of terrorism?

if the first, good for you, you did it, whopp de doo
if the second, it's absolutely a loss

(not counting in the real goal of the war being to fatten up the military industrial complex and get a bunch of oil being a factor)

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