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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfghanistan Is America's Worst Foreign Policy Debacle
Except for Iraq, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Libya, Iran, Lebanon, and Cuba.
~Borowitz
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Afghanistan Is America's Worst Foreign Policy Debacle (Original Post)
Jim G.
Aug 2021
OP
But to be serious, it is a debacle. I'm just glad that my President Joe Biden, is ending it.
Scrivener7
Aug 2021
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Scrivener7
(58,875 posts)1. But to be serious, it is a debacle. I'm just glad that my President Joe Biden, is ending it.
Jim G.
(14,814 posts)2. Without A Doubt nt
rickyhall
(5,509 posts)3. Didn't even get into South and Central America.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)4. To be fair, Panama was a huge success.
rickyhall
(5,509 posts)6. Noriega's arrest not so much.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)10. I was there. I thought it went smooth. He didn't enjoy the music though.
rickyhall
(5,509 posts)11. How many innocent Panamanian casualties?
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)13. I cannot remember. It's been 35 years afterall.
Id probably remember if there were a lot. I was stationed there two years.
malaise
(294,156 posts)5. Ask the Iraqis
Mad_Machine76
(24,939 posts)7. You had me there for a moment
I was just going to point out the same LOL
treestar
(82,383 posts)8. US needs to stop thinking it can save the world
And tend to its own people.
malaise
(294,156 posts)12. The saving the world side of it is a myth
It's about self interests and looting resources - not saving anyone
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)9. Afghanistan is everyone's worst foreign policy debacle
they don't call it "the graveyard of empires" for nothing.
