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Old 08-17-2021, 07:25 AM   #213
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Had we not removed air support, it likely wouldn't have been this bad.

Not sure what the US was thinking, but they have no problem killing innocent people with drone's any other day of the week. No idea why they suddenly felt it was so important to stop doing that KNOWING that innocent people would die.
Wasn't just air support, it was any and all foreign contractors, intelligence support, funding for ground assets, etc. Compound all that with general corruption in the Afghan government where some Afghan National Army units were not paid for months, you have a demoralized army that is going to desert or collapse.

At the time Trump and Pompeo didn't care about the consequences. They merely wanted a media "win" prior to the election to boost their re-election chances.
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