What we learn from History
Let's round this all up:
* Hubristic nation building.
* Starry-eyed constitution writing.
* Wildly unrealistic military training.
* Vast corruption.
* Lack of food and weapons for Afghan soldiers.
* Bad negotiating from the Trump administration.
* Afghan leadership void.
After we lost in Vietnam, our military leadership "swore it would never happen again. But it did, just as soon as they found themselves in a similar situation."
Rob's comment:
Let's go to Hegel for a Big Thought on History: “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
All we learn here is that the world has another country controlled by Muslim religious crackpots.
Labels: Afghanistan, Biden, Democratic Party, History, How Religion Poisons Everything, Islamic Fascism, Trump, Vietnam
posted by Rob Anderson @ 2:45 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Trump is not the president. The order to pull out the way the US did came from Biden
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/08/16/bidens-stubborn-streak-paved-the-way-for-havoc-in-afghanistan-493986?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000154-efc4-d4c8-a757-ffcdacfd0000&nlid=630318
Trump teed the fiasco up when he negotiated the May deadline for pulling out US Troops with the Taliban last year. Biden too was stupid by campaigning on a pull-out promise and then living up to that stupidity by accelerating the process. Shameful all around.
Whether pullout is now or a year from now the outcome would not have changed. To think otherwise is, to say the least, naivete. The ONLY think to be done differently was to start getting people out of the country slowly
Agreed. Afghanistan's army and security forces evidently didn't think that government was worth fighting for. Another factor: at a critical point early in the occupation, the US shifted its focus to Iraq based on the phony WMD and al Qaeda issues.
Afghanistan might have turned out differently if the US concentrated on Afghanistan and didn't get distracted by what turned out to be the Iraq fiasco.
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