Afghanistan…

Well…with all of the hand wringing and finger pointing that is going on with the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover of the country, we need to remember the bottom line in this whole debacle…that no matter what we did and how much money we spent the Taliban was just going to wait us out and take over the country when we left…and there was no agreement that would have stopped it, any agreement was just part of the wait it out strategy that is happening there just as it was for the Vietnamese at the end of that war…and 20 years and 2 trillion dollars is enough…when should it end? If you listen to those on the right, they permanently wanted to occupy the country and part of that is that it keeps their buddies in the defense industry raking in cash….what is the profit on 2 trillion dollars spent? Now, with the chaos that is going on there, I will say there should have been better planning on how to withdraw and I do put some of the blame on Biden…but the generals and the intelligence community have had 20 years to plan how to get us out and I don’t see where the effort has had any effect…if there was any effort that is….I feel for the people of Afghanistan but most of them are perfectly fine with the Taliban taking over if it gets the Americans out so we needed to go….let’s not do this nation building crap again…okay? geez….

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