While the US admitted about 70,000 Afghans into the country on an emergency basis in 2021, the measure is temporary, and these people remain in legal limbo.
Funded, yes, but the CIA are the ones who got the ball rolling by financing fundamentalist madrasas in Pakistan where the ideology of the Taliban came to be.
The Taliban and years of religious squabbling is what broke their country. And if you truly think it’s all the US, then you don’t know your history and are uneducated.
The recent history of Afghanistan is complex, but “Pulling out haphazardly after releasing thousands of Taliban fighters against the will of the national government” is, at the very least, a very strong contributing factor to the current state of affairs.
Well, yeah. But it’s not the entire reason a country is broken. Plus, we’ve been there for too long and the government there didn’t have a clue in how to go about improving itself. And we needed to go so…what else could’ve been done?
But it’s not the entire reason a country is broken
So just because the 20 years of US fuckery didn’t cause ALL the problems plaguing the country, it bears NONE of the blame? That logic is more broken than Afghanistan is.
Everything in the Middle-East is a waste of time.
First of all, that’s extremely bigoted. Second, Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East.
Not releasing an additional 5000 veteran Taliban fighters would have been a good start. Not going above the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban would’ve been a good second step.
It was never going to be pretty, but it didn’t need to end as badly as it did.
I didn’t say it was entirely America’s fault. I’m well aware of the history of Afghanistan because I personally went there with the military. Ever hear of what Colin Powell called the Pottery Barn Rule? It means if you break it, then you buy it.
We broke their country so we owe them citizenship at least. I’m sure Donnie Dipshit has other ideas though.
A dumbshit extremist religion funded and pushed by the Saudi’s broke their country.
Look at how the country was in the 60s and tell me any decade since hasn’t been exponentially worse. That shit plunged them back into the dark ages.
Funded, yes, but the CIA are the ones who got the ball rolling by financing fundamentalist madrasas in Pakistan where the ideology of the Taliban came to be.
I don’t know why these days people just forget CIA funding extremism in Pakistan.
The Taliban and years of religious squabbling is what broke their country. And if you truly think it’s all the US, then you don’t know your history and are uneducated.
The recent history of Afghanistan is complex, but “Pulling out haphazardly after releasing thousands of Taliban fighters against the will of the national government” is, at the very least, a very strong contributing factor to the current state of affairs.
Well, yeah. But it’s not the entire reason a country is broken. Plus, we’ve been there for too long and the government there didn’t have a clue in how to go about improving itself. And we needed to go so…what else could’ve been done?
Everything in the Middle-East is a waste of time.
So just because the 20 years of US fuckery didn’t cause ALL the problems plaguing the country, it bears NONE of the blame? That logic is more broken than Afghanistan is.
First of all, that’s extremely bigoted. Second, Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East.
Not releasing an additional 5000 veteran Taliban fighters would have been a good start. Not going above the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban would’ve been a good second step.
It was never going to be pretty, but it didn’t need to end as badly as it did.
I didn’t say it was entirely America’s fault. I’m well aware of the history of Afghanistan because I personally went there with the military. Ever hear of what Colin Powell called the Pottery Barn Rule? It means if you break it, then you buy it.