Look, I try not to care, too much, about what goes on in other countries. I try not to think about all the Afghans that will die, now; all the 12-year-olds who will be married off; the fall of an entire country; the fact that terrorists will have a breeding ground again; or the total waste of money and life that this all represents...
But it's kind of hard to just "ignore" what is going on. Your country has just capitulated, betrayed its allies and left complete destruction in its wake, for what, FOR WHAT?
And why, because a couple of old men (first Trump, and now dipshit Biden) decided it was politically expedient to do so...
I just... It's disgusting, to be frank. And you know what's significant? I suspect this represents the end of American "soft power", across much of the world. Because the world, including America's allies, will now see what a joke "that country's" military is. What lies America tells itself, and its allies. How "you" can't be relied upon. How utterly, utterly pathetic this whole debacle is. And how "your" president is a useless, lying, untrustworthy, duplicitous, idiotic fuck.
Look, I never particularly LIKED Trump, but I fail to understand how ANYONE can look at the fall of Kabul this week, look at the WORST US foreign policy failure in more than 40 years, and not see this as worse than anything Trump ever directly did, perhaps even including fucking Yemen...
I just... Fuck this. It is a fucking disgrace, and there is no room to make light of it. Biden and Psaki, and everyone else involved, deserves to rot in hell for this. Blood is on their hands, and no one, American, Afghan, Chinese or otherwise, should ever forget or forgive that.
Jesus christ... Human beings are not "cancer", whatever religion they may ascribe to...
Stop trying to wash your country's hands of blood, for this. It's not the fault of Afghan women and children, or Hazara refugees, or of most of the Afghan population. Are the Afghan people blameless? Of course fucking not. But they do not deserve this, and no pseudo-historical xenophobic bullshit is ever going to justify what is happening, on the ground, on the other side of the world, right now.
If you want to find someone convenient to blame, blame the fucking Soviets. They started this most recent cycle, as raven0ak pointed out... And I know how much "you" Americans like to blame "commies" for the problems that your state-capitalist system is just as guilty of causing, fucking lol...
Afghanistan is simply returning to theocratic Islamic rule. That's what the majority of people who live there want. They didn't want buttsex fetish parades and child drag queen story hours and radical feminist leaders. This "oppression" is their chosen culture. You can't shed tears for the women and girls of Afghanistan and then absolve Islam of the blame for what is happening over there.
At this point I'm leaning toward them being right.
If they want this, then why are they trying to leave the country in droves?
But they'd get those dollars if they left last month or the month before?
I find something funny about how you tell random ass internet people to stop trying to wash their hands of blood, while Afghans are absolved.
Either both are equally responsible or none.
How is "taxation", voluntary, private or capitalist.
A "state-capitalist system" would be closer to National Socialism.
Just like what FDR intended in 1934.