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Originally Posted by Mr K
He was continuing the same policy as your buddy Donny. 'America First bring our troops home....' All conveniently forgotten now?
Same as with Iraq. We want quick military solutions but aren't prepared to follow it through in the years afterwards, and are gobsmacked when the countries revert to chaos when we lose interest.
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From a time perspective we followed it through. We spent twenty years fighting the taliban and training their military & police and providing them with equipment.
But we (and by we i mean NATO) failed by
Not understanding the complex political/historical situation in Afghanistan
Allowing the corruption to continue unabated in the military & police.
it's hardly surprising that they collapsed/withdrew when they hadn't been paid for months & had no resupply