08-16-2021, 11:35 AM
(08-16-2021, 10:41 AM)Nately120 Wrote: With all this talk of ISIS and Antifa and border caravans of rapist illegals I feel like the taliban sort of got left in the dust for a while. Still, wasn't this withdrawal sort of inevitable? Bush and Obama were the warhawk sort of "keep 'em over there" types and with the GOP going from that to culture war stuff focused on the USA it didn't seem like the 2020 election had a candidate that was going to really double-down on the war over there.
The interest in fighting off the taliban got lost in the shuffle of rigged elections, vaccination and lockdown stuff, and cancel culture. We're focused on ourselves now...America first.
I think that once Osama bin Laden was killed the general public lost their investment in the war in Afghanistan. Americans in general were not in this for the regime change/nation building that the government went into the region with as their intentions. Because of that, the political viability of the war just continually declined. The War on Terror was about vengeance the way it was branded, and once Americans had that there was no longer a point.
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