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[–] philpo@feddit.org 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, the Taliban would like to have a word.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

20 years, ~2000 dead civilians by direct action, over 26,000 dead kids during rhe conflict, and ~10k dead 'militants*' in Afghanistan and $2.3 trillion spent.

All to replace the Taliban with.. the Taliban.

Largely thanks to Trump's rapid, unplanned withdrawal.

The shart of the deal, baby.

*includes post-mortem labelling of boys as young as 12 as 'militant' simply by being in the vicinity of a US airstrike. Military gear, insignia, uniform etc nor any other evidence required for determination.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So who started that invasion again?

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

GW Bush? Not sure what your point is. The Taliban didn't break the US invasion, the US left in a hurry with no exit plan and left a power vacuum which the Taliban quickly filled.

Arguable the Afghanistan war would have achieved anything 'net positive' even if the US had carefully slowly exited as they did (somewhat) from Iraq.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah. That's the point,we are getting closer.

Every invasion of a foreign country by the US in the last 50 years was done by a Republican president.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Panama....