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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
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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
(51,025 posts)1. But to be serious, it is a debacle. I'm just glad that my President Joe Biden, is ending it.
Jim G.
(14,811 posts)2. Without A Doubt nt
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)3. Didn't even get into South and Central America.
jimfields33
(15,986 posts)4. To be fair, Panama was a huge success.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)6. Noriega's arrest not so much.
jimfields33
(15,986 posts)10. I was there. I thought it went smooth. He didn't enjoy the music though.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)11. How many innocent Panamanian casualties?
jimfields33
(15,986 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
(269,193 posts)5. Ask the Iraqis
Mad_Machine76
(24,440 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
(269,193 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.