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There was a winner and a loser in the war between the US military and the Taliban.
The US military was the loser.
Stop it with this Rambo 3 "We would've won if they let us!"nonsense.
Twenty years. Billions of dollars. "They were hiding! We can't counter such tactics! It's not fair!"
The country the war was fought over.
*edit* Chatgpt babble lies.Yall foreign brehs really have no understanding of the United States. You think the US was fighting to have Afghanistan?
Why the hell would we want Afghanistan??
Hurt people hurt people. The US was born out of an abusive relationship and did unto others what was done to it. Then it took steroids and here we are.The British said awhile ago that US cacs were too lazy, impatient, and incompetent to colonize anyone. Which is possibly true but more importantly it doesn't serve American cac economic interests.
Because they're not interested in long term cultural manipulation just military occupation and invasions to put US corps in charge then leave.
As for China vs the USA. From the Black perspective the US is endlessly malevolent and despicable and has been for centuries.
China by contrast minds its business globally.
The US though has interfered and destroyed the ability of any country in the entire Western Hemisphere to be independent and to do what they want.
No matter how small a country they are. Because if they do they get destroyed. And that was the message sent hemisphere wide before WW2.
Afterward US cacs decided that the eastern hemisphere or the rest of the world was their backyard as well.
So now they're telling every major country what they can do in their own territory. Like sticking their noses in Africa (Although cac racism keeps them more distant there), India, Southeast Asia, and China.
The US is the last superpower. What you expect?
I was over there in Afghanistan in 2010, we were doing way more nation building shyt than fighting, granted I was in Herat the western part of Afghanistan that didn't see much action since the Taliban was coming over mostly from Pakistan which was in the southern part of Afghanistan
What the US Military did fail at was trying to build Afghanistan up into a nation that could stand on it's own two feet without US Military help, once we seen that was a lost cause we were like deuces.
- Alexander the Great's Greek Empire: Alexander invaded Afghanistan in 330 BC and stayed there for three years, leaving in 327 BC.
- The Arab Empire: The Arab Empire invaded Afghanistan in the 7th century AD and stayed there for several centuries, until the arrival of the Mongols in the 13th century.
- Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire: The Mongol Empire invaded Afghanistan in the early 13th century and stayed there for several decades, until the collapse of the Mongol Empire in the mid-14th century.
- Timur's Turkic-Mongol Empire: Timur invaded Afghanistan in the late 14th century and stayed there for several years, until his death in 1405.
- The Persian Safavid Empire: The Safavid Empire invaded Afghanistan in the 16th century and stayed there for several centuries, until the decline of the Safavid Empire in the late 18th century.
- The British Empire: The British Empire invaded Afghanistan in 1839 and stayed there for almost 80 years, until the Afghan War of Independence in 1919.
- The Soviet Union: The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and stayed there for almost 10 years, until they withdrew in 1989.
- The United States and NATO forces: The United States and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and are still present in the country as of 2023.
Hurt people hurt people. The US was born out of an abusive relationship and did unto others what was done to it. Then it took steroids and here we are.
User Clip: George Bush 1991: 'Our quest for a new world order'
US president George HW Bush at the UN in 1991www.c-span.org
If the US had gone into Afghanistan with humanitarian aid rather than explosives things would have turned out differently. Flood the nation with food, clothing, medicine and education. Put a USA flag on everything given to them. The Taliban using IED's to take out armor that is trying to kill them is a propaganda win for them. Blowing up UN blue hats distributing aid... not so much.
I know this is a fever dream of what could have been but this is how I think the US should have reacted to 9/11.
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Afghanistan sucks ass. It was over resources like every war.Yall foreign brehs really have no understanding of the United States. You think the US was fighting to have Afghanistan?
Why the hell would we want Afghanistan??
*edit* Chatgpt babble lies.
Hurt people hurt people. The US was born out of an abusive relationship and did unto others what was done to it. Then it took steroids and here we are.
User Clip: George Bush 1991: 'Our quest for a new world order'
US president George HW Bush at the UN in 1991
If the US had gone into Afghanistan with humanitarian aid rather than explosives things would have turned out differently. Flood the nation with food, clothing, medicine and education. Put a USA flag on everything given to them. The Taliban using IED's to take out armor that is trying to kill them is a propaganda win for them. Blowing up UN blue hats distributing aid... not so much.
I know this is a fever dream of what could have been but this is how I think the US should have reacted to 9/11.
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Like the American people would have gone for that
Imagine if GWB said "Yes, we were attacked by terrorists, now let's go and give their people aid.
He would have got impeached
And I get what you're saying, in hindsight, that would have been better... but there was no way to do it. The American people wanted BLOOD after 9/11. I just finished watching The Sopranos and I watched 24 recently too. 24 was a hit show specifically about US special agents killing middle easterners (terrorists) and the Sopranos was about the mob, but they somehow worked a terrorist storyline (Tony being suspicious of middle eastern folks) even into that.
It was all through our media, culture and everything. Folks wanted somebody to pay, and we chose Afghanistan and Iraq.
The statement wasn't for the U.S. in Africa,it was generalizing what happens when the U.S. becomes a dominant factor in ANY country and I'm talking about in recent years.Actually that was the British. If we wanna be technical
What did the US do to Syria?
If you ask me, the US was too hands off when it came to Syria. Obama should have gotten us involved on some level. That would have been better than Assad bombing his own people.
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