Ah, I see now we are withdrawing in the other direction. Who could have possibly seen this coming?https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1425892996378238977 …
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Now we have a situation where we can either expend a lot more blood and treasure to get back to the comparatively low-cost stalemate we had 2 years ago, or midwife a humanitarian catastrophe on our way out the door.
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(To be clear, the current news doesn't change the fact, as far as I can tell, that we are choosing option 2 there, because Americans don't care about foreign policy and so presidents, GOP and Dem can break our promises with impunity)
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We never should have gone in the first place, but having done so, we should stay until things are safe for those we leave behind. Instead, we are following up one mistake with another.
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This seems to assume that a time when it's safe to leave is inevitable. The situation now is much like it's been for most of the last twenty years, American forces propping up a government that can't effectively resist the Taliban on their own; what would change there?
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When did we promise to stay in Afghanistan forever? Why does giving a bunch of money to someone create a debt *from the giver*? Why do we owe a country we only got involved with because a group based in Afghanistan killed a bunch of Americans?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Staying there forever is not a promise or expectation that the US can afford in general to make. It gives allies/clients the option of free-riding forever, in the Afghan elite's case by coasting on corruption and failing to act like a polity under existential military threat.
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It has cost us 2 trillion dollars over 20 years to keep the Taliban down and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths. To put that into perspective that is less than the amount that Congress is debating spending on the economy this year.
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