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In reply to the discussion: STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN MENENDEZ FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN [View all]panader0
(25,816 posts)31. How much do you want a foreign army occupying the US?
That's how much they want us there.
Foreign tanks on the streets, bombing raids which kill innocents, completely different culture.
You can argue that we're bringing things that we, as Westerners, hold dear. (Kinda)
But they don't hold the same things dear. We can't assume to know what they want when we're pointing a gun
at them.
Perhaps you think we could just remove all the girls? While your heart is in a good place,
there is no good solution.
ETA: somewhere near 40,000 civilians have been killed since we invaded. Last year and the year before
had over 3,000 each year. Our invasion threw their nation into turmoil and death.
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STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN MENENDEZ FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED COMMITTEE BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN [View all]
Rustyeye77
Aug 2021
OP
If we haven't been able to "save" Afghanistan in 20 years then when will we?
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#27
Your strategy will only work if we decide to stay in Afghanistan forever and if we decide
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#24
A full committee hearing in the coming weeks sounds like it's too late, to me.
secondwind
Aug 2021
#13
It is not within our ability to "save" that country unless we decide to stay there forever.
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#25