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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what people want, exactly. 20 years of occupation wasn't enough to change their culture even a little bit. Do they want permanent American occupation? That's clearly untenable for many reasons. I don't want America to be the world police, and I don't want them invading countries on moral grounds.

Any aid given to Afghanistan immediately ends up in the hands of the Taliban now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Might as well annex Afghanistan and make them a state of the Union, then some changes could happen.