08-16-2021, 01:18 PM
(08-16-2021, 01:01 PM)Dill Wrote: Tapping this out on a phone.
For years politicians and military have resisted or opposed “nation-building” in A-Stan. Can’t work. Remember Vietnam Tho willing to set up and defend a “government” army and police force. Couldn’t negotiate with “terrorists” for 15 years.
Still, Looks like the A-Stan fiasco will be chalked up to “nation-building”
So we won’t do that “again.”
Watching Faulkner Harris. Gold star families r enraged at Biden. “Both sides” did it. “Experts” were all wrong.
All Gold Star families, and frankly anyone who served over the past 20 years deserve to be enraged. But that rage needs to be directed at our government's philosophies and actions as a whole. It's one thing to hear media talking heads talking about how the past 20+ years of war have been a waste of time, money and resources. This fiasco of a withdrawal is a tacit admission by our government and military that all that money was spent for nothing, all the time apart was for nothing, and all those lives lost were for nothing. There was no good outcome here, for anyone. But as long as we were there these people could hold on to the belief that sustainable good was being done. Now it's all come crashing down and there is little doubt that it was all in vain.
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