What did the people do? Allow it to freaking happen,
I feel like I have a lot less standing to comment on stuff like this as an American currently watching my country just stand around and let the fascists take over.
And as far as I can tell we’re not the only country barely fighting back against authoritarianism either.
Agree it’s pointless what we’re doing, but I’m certainly not going to throw stones at people being unable or unwilling to risk life and limb for liberty.
I don’t think it’s a waste of time for military contractors and for the American political elite (Trump in particular) who would rather stay in power/face no legal repercussions and avoid Bibi leaking some even more compromising stuff. More importantly, it’s a waste of lives.
This entire thread just makes me mourn the quality of history education in this part of the world.
Which nation, through a proxy war with the USSR, armed and empowered the progenitor of the Taliban?
Nearly everyone here desperately needs a crash course in how this part of the world creates circumstances for conflict and instability elsewhere. If you look closely enough you’ll see, from the colonial era to now, it was done with (often times malicious) intention.
The amazing thing about American foreign policy is that it thinks it can fix the problems it creates and it essentially never can.
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I feel like I have a lot less standing to comment on stuff like this as an American currently watching my country just stand around and let the fascists take over.
And as far as I can tell we’re not the only country barely fighting back against authoritarianism either.
Agree it’s pointless what we’re doing, but I’m certainly not going to throw stones at people being unable or unwilling to risk life and limb for liberty.
Remember Eisenhower’s warning?
Remember JFK?
The hour may be later than you think.
Best not fall for the pantomime. When they put the puppets away, it’s still going on.
I don’t think it’s a waste of time for military contractors and for the American political elite (Trump in particular) who would rather stay in power/face no legal repercussions and avoid Bibi leaking some even more compromising stuff. More importantly, it’s a waste of lives.
This entire thread just makes me mourn the quality of history education in this part of the world.
Which nation, through a proxy war with the USSR, armed and empowered the progenitor of the Taliban?
Nearly everyone here desperately needs a crash course in how this part of the world creates circumstances for conflict and instability elsewhere. If you look closely enough you’ll see, from the colonial era to now, it was done with (often times malicious) intention.
The amazing thing about American foreign policy is that it thinks it can fix the problems it creates and it essentially never can.
That’s the opposite of controversial
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Yeah, why wont they stop punching themselves in the face. Nothing to do with the bully holding their arms making them do it.
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