Why Are We In Afghanistan?

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33. I'm saying that when the Afghan government requested our assistance last time...

... we should have given it.

A disaster occurred when we failed to do so. This led to horrible consequences for those Afghans who requested our assistance. Those horrible consequences were spreading to other countries.

In the meantime, other foreigners another group of Afghans requested to assist them were there doing just that. As payment for that assistance they were given a safe base to attack the United States.

And THAT is why we got into Afghanistan. To eliminate that base of operations.

The OP question was why we are still there. I am saying we are still there because we do not want to make the same mistake we made last time. Do you think Karzai and his supporters want us to leave them to the mercies of the Taliban?

And, yes, I am saying it is better for them, for their neighbors, and, most importantly, for us.

And that is not imperalism. It would be imperalism if we meant to rule Afghanistan. We do not.