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2022-08-27 Afghanistan

Mourning a Lost War: Why Nation-Building Failed in Afghanistan. Many of the architects and cheerleaders of the twenty-year mission in Afghanistan refuse to accept that the United States lost the war. We lost. Full stop.

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Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top
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#1 US is good at winning stand-up fights and guerrilla wars, but bad at winning hearts and minds and it turns out winning hearts and minds is what really matters in the long run.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-27 00:29|| 2022-08-27 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The mission was to get OBL. You changed the mission, when you decided that you weren't going to make Pakland pay for harboring the man. That is when you lost the war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-27 07:09|| 2022-08-27 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 We didn't get run out of Astan because the locals wouldn't pose for a Norman Rockwell calendar.
You can't win a war when the opposition has a sanctuary and the Taliban had Pakistan.
So we got tired of paying the price to maintain whatever we had there and left. The alternative would have been to keep paying the price indefinitely or "fix" the sanctuary.
The Big Fail was not being sufficiently clued in to how fast the Astan military would cave. But...if we were tired of paying the price and didn't think we could "fix" Pakistan, maybe it didn't matter anyway

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2022-08-27 11:45|| 2022-08-27 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Why Nation-Building Failed in Afghanistan.

Because you can't stack sh*t that high without it topples over again...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-27 11:55|| 2022-08-27 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Alexander the Great, Soviet Empire, US... anyone know if the Mongols took a swipe at it?

Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-27 18:44|| 2022-08-27 18:44|| Front Page Top

#6 From Wiki - In the Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia (1219–1221), Genghis Khan invaded the region from the northeast in one of his many conquests to create the huge Mongol Empire. His armies slaughtered thousands in the cities of Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad etc. After Genghis Khan returned to Mongolia, there was a rebellion in the region of Helmand which was brutally put down by his son and successor, Ogedei Khan, who killed all male residents of Ghazni and Helmand in 1222; the women were enslaved and sold. Thereafter most parts of Afghanistan other than the extreme south-eastern remained under Mongol rule as part of the Ilkhanate and Chagatai Khanate.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2022-08-27 19:39|| 2022-08-27 19:39|| Front Page Top

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