Listening to BBC radio last night-- they estimate 2 months until Taliban...

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. I firmly believe

that if we'd stayed out of Afghanistan it would not be in the straits it is now. Every time we go in and try to "fix" something (either covertly or full tilt) it ends up in worse shape than it started out in.

The ones I can remember in my lifetime (this is an off the cuff list, feel free to join in):
Iran
Vietnam
Lebanon
Iraq
El Salvador (and just about anyplace else in Central America!)
Afghanistan
anyplace in Africa where we're sticking our noses
Feel free to add.

I was born in 1943 so I remember all the way back to the US screwing around with Iran and toppling their democratically elected president Mossadegh and installing Shah Reza Pahlevi, which led eventually to the revolution and the current regime. We have only ourselves to blame for that one. (My parents made us listen to Edward R. Murrow and sometimes quizzed us afterwards!)