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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.U.S. troops in Afghanistan begin packing gear in pullout prep
By KATHY GANNON KABUL, Afghanistan©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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theFu
Which President Obama said he would do. He left 9,800 there.
Ref: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/world/asia/obama-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan.html
President Trump pulled all but 2500 US troops from Afghanistan by Mid-January 2021:
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-afghanistan-taliban-united-states-16cc1dd5b2f74d463311d212ad0d215a
The US should never have sent massive military to Afghanistan. Only SPECOPS and "advisors".
Seems people would be tired of partisan posts by now. Guess not.
lincolnman
So, we'll be waiting for all the Trump supporters and their NECON-hating brethren to congratulate President Biden on doing what Trump couldn't do....
I imagine we'll be waiting a long time...
voiceofokinawa
The Afghanistan War was started as retaliation against the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the twin buildings of World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington by U.S. President George W. Bush.
Surprisingly, Bush started another war in Iraq while combats against Al-Qaeda were still going on in Afghanistan, saying initially that Iraq was giving a haven for the Al-Qaeda terrorists and later retelling that Hussein of Iraq was secretly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraq War or the Second Gulf War ended in two months with Bush proudly declaring that "the mission was accomplished." In the meantime the war in Afghanistan was endlessly continuing.
What a sad world! Deaths on the part of the Coalition: 3,562, of which U.S. deaths account for 2,437.
voiceofokinawa
Sadly enough, civilian casualties accounted for more than 100,000. One must never forget that.
voiceofokinawa
President Joe Biden is cleaning up one of his predecessors' mess, of course. I hope his decision of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will benefit the people of that country first and foremost.
"America First" policy is not former President Donald Trump's patent. U.S. foreign policy had been dictated by that principle long before Trump verbalized it. It may be time for U.S. policy makers to sincerely reflect what they have done to the world for the past 75 years.
theFu
Afghanistan will be controlled by 50% elected, govt, and 50% women-hating, authoritarian, old men, living 2000 yrs in the past who are willing to kill everyone, except themselves, to retain power. They'd rather kill than allow girls to become educated.
They are fearful of education, because then people would actually read the Quran and see the lies and terrible truths it tells. Like other "Holy" texts, there is a passage for anything anyone might wish to do, provided they are a male, father.
Russia couldn't change it.
The US and coalition can't change it.
Afghanistan will need to route out the old men and put women in power everywhere possible to make the cultural changes. The old men won't allow that.