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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quickly forget? Didn't US spend like 20 years there?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, but we aren't reporting at the level we used to.

But to be fair, we still ignored Afghanistan a lot during the occupation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why should we? Honestly, if I was American, I would be salty about this as hell. So much money spent and then they give up the moment US leaves? Apparently they got exactly what they wanted. Sure, not everyone likes it, but don't blame the world "forgetting" about you, this shit is entirely of their doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As it was reported by the Onion in the late 2000’s: The majority of Americans support emotionally withdrawing from Afghanistan.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 1 points 1 year ago

If all you use are facts, the soundbites aren’t as good.