Afghanistan: "No more pretending it meant anything. It didn't - It didn't mean a fucking thing"

[Aussie105]

71. Could this be a turning point in American foreign policy?

Does it sink in yet?

Sending troops overseas based on abstract ideological foundations never works?

Foreigners will always see the presence of American soldiers in their country as an invasion, and react accordingly?

Those who cooperated did so for their own reasons, be it money or power, not because they wanted the same thing for their country as America. They didn't, they don't.

But Afghanistan . . . more a collection of tribal lands rather than a unified country.

The presence of foreign boots on the ground gave them a reason to unite against a common foe.
Will they now fragment back into tribal conflict?

Will the country as a whole regress even further, stone age perhaps?

But if you want to be callous - Afghanistan is the concern of Afghanis, not Americans. Let them sort it out themselves.

Or was Afghanistan and all the other overseas wars just a 'Look! Squirrel!' thing to take heat off domestic problems?