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Originally Posted by dobbles
I'm torn on Afghanistan. As girly alludes to, America has been there for nearly 20 years. In all that time of helping to rebuild their defense mechanisms, we only managed to build a system that could hold off the Taliban for 30 days? So if we are saying Biden rushed this, or Trump or Obama, etc, then what is the alternative? Stay 20 more years so the country could last 60 days before collapsing when we eventually leave?
At some point we have to accept that there doesn't seem to be much of an effort inside the country to prevent Taliban rule, so we just have to accept their leadership and deal with them as we would any other 'hostile' country. I feel like I am in the wrong for thinking this way, I'm just not sure what the better answer is.
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Is there a good example of success of an outside military removing the existing government and creating a stable democracy after they leave? Has this concept ever worked?