The only way to "fix" an islamic shithole like Afghanistan would require annihilating the local population and replacing them. They could stayed there forever and they would still never accomplish anything. The locals have been fighting each other for multiple centuries now. Do you really think a short occupation is going to miraculously change that?
I saw that. Then I said it wouldn't matter how long they stayed, because it would turn right back into the same shithole it had been for centuries before that. Likely within a week to a month at most.
The only way to "fix" an islamic shithole like Afghanistan would require annihilating the local population and replacing them. They could stayed there forever and they would still never accomplish anything. The locals have been fighting each other for multiple centuries now. Do you really think a short occupation is going to miraculously change that?
I said they should never have gone there.
I saw that. Then I said it wouldn't matter how long they stayed, because it would turn right back into the same shithole it had been for centuries before that. Likely within a week to a month at most.
I meant 'how' they withdrew - not why. That was the disgrace. They basically threw all their interpreters under the bus.
Indeed and I don't believe for a moment it was a mistake. Like Iran Contra, but they'll pretend it was incompetence for CYA.