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Afghanistan: Nobody Gives a &*%$?

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Thargor
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Afghanistan: Nobody Gives a &*%$?

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Does anyone else think this situation is getting amazingly light touch coverage from all sides in social and MSM media? Barely a mention. The Taliban are pouring back into the cities now, we'll be talking about the fall of Kabul soon, this is a major historic defeat of a superpower/NATO and barely a peep about it from the right or the left. All the trillions wasted and thousands of dead, it just strikes me as so odd.
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Re: Afghanistan: Nobody Gives a &*%$?

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The Yanks made the same mistake that they made in Vietnam. They conquered territory. They didn't try to liberate people's hearts and minds. If they won Afghan hearts and minds, the Taliban wouldn't be able to get the support (active or passive) of Afghan people.

The Afghan leadership didn't help by not paying the army properly (or the Generals could have "helped themselves" to the ordinary soldiers wages). Same as the South Vietnam Army before t…login to view the rest of this post

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