01-18-2019, 05:36 PM
(01-18-2019, 05:27 PM)bfine32 Wrote: We're talking about the JV here, right?
As to the matter; The only way ideologies like this are going to be "defeated' is through occupation. ever wonder why the Nazis didn't come back to Germany?
We are getting very close to Afghanistan being a culture that has had us there for a generation; hopefully the culture will start to change once those that grew up with US/coalition occupation move into positions of power. Currently an 18 year old in Afghanistan has never known his/her country without US occupation.
The day it was announced we were withdrawing from Syria, I knew it was a mistake, and said so in the very forum. But many are for our withdraw.
This is why we tend to help install new governments through back channels more than wars. Unless we have a desire to spend 20+ years somewhere you are going to struggle to maintain what you built otherwise. Sometimes installing those new governments means putting bad guys in control because you know there "evil" vs the possible evil that could take control. People will say that is shitty but it's kind of the way the world has worked for hundreds of years. Not everywhere can function as a democracy, and some places simply don't want it, and that is just hard for Western countries to accept sometimes.
