At least see if they can do a mission on their own. Once.
Were they planning to stay there forever. How retarded is this stuff.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (45)
sorted by:
So you're saying they should've armed all the other warlords and hope the western-backed warlord alliance would crush the Taliban, instead of building an Afghan nation and national army?
What's the difference between Taliban and the others anyway. Do the Afghans generally prefer the Taliban, or was it a city warlord vs rural hick Taliban cultural divide, or was it just tribe vs tribe.
Cathy, pls.
The warlords turned out to be the gov's last ditch backup options but it was just too late. They lacked modern weapons (unlike the T) and the enemy advances cut then from their manpower pools in the remaining enclaves so they failed to even mobilize and rearm before quitting like everyone else did.
What's the best solution then.
I know Afghanistan is a US military fuckup but I don't know exactly why. They had 20 years, this is the best they can do?
The fear was that if they won't be disarmed (and the disarmament of militias was an early task during the first few years when the Taliban were only regrouping in Pakistan, where they spawned the Pakistani Taliban splinter group) "the country may return to the civil war". I guess that's averted!
And more recently: https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-warlords-resurgence-echoes-civil-war/31217648.html (too late and against government opposition until literally the last days).
Answer: The people living in Afghanistan are Afghanies. This is what "all races are the same" leads to.
The more we import diverse levels of competence and function in western countries, the closer we get to failed states ourselves.
https://jamestown.org/program/afghan-warlords-reluctant-to-disarm/