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Re: US President Joe Biden
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Originally Posted by Damien
Once they, and we, did intervene we should have finished the job.
In fairness, the Afgan Government was pushing for the Americans to leave in 2014. They refused Obama's request to keep troops there. They must have relented eventually but it's been six years so far of borrowed time.
But their security forces are clearly not up to the job. |
Not sure how anyone "finishes the job" in an asymmetric warfare scenario (without "instant sunshine" glassing over the whole country)?
No one has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan (the book discusses Iraq as well), due to the terrain and tribal society - when the tribes are being defeated, they just fade back into the mountains, when the occupying troops lessen, they come back out again.
There is a really good book about this called "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins that I would recommend to others for an insight into why it's a losing proposition, whatever anyone does.
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Last edited by Hugh; 13-08-2021 at 10:36.
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