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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Well the most obvious option would have been to move forward with a staggered withdrawal from a few key areas, while maintaining some degree of support that put the costs and risks on American military at a minimum for the next 12 -18 months. Joe Biden is just not a very good leader and I'm starting to question his character as a very good person. He's better than Trump, but that's like calling the secretive turd eating dog a good boy only because his pal does it openly.
It's hard not to feel awful for every Afghani that may have had a glimmer of what a promising future may be to now be pulled back into the stone age. It's shameful they have been abandoned, and equally shameful this was so hastily executed. The whole thing makes a mockery of all the civilian and military losses that were supposedly meant to achieve something.
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As mentioned earlier in this thread, 20 years of seeing the light is still 20 years of seeing the light. Officially the Taliban will come back and ban everything. But people will do things underground and 'illegally' and having seen the light at least people know what that's like and won't be scared to fight the Taliban in future generations with future leaders. There is always official propaganda but the stories that are secretly passed down generation to generation are invaluable. And the story of these 20 years will be passed down that it is possible one day, it has happened before.