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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It's a brave soul who argues that the current withdrawal from Afghanistan is anything but a failure, so much as I dislike Blair I agree with him on this matter.
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I don't think anyone is saying otherwise, I am just pointing out that Blair (given his past actions) should stay out of it.
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Originally Posted by Carth
It does beg the question though, of how long we (or the US) should have stayed there.
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We should have left about 18 years ago, after we had gone in and got rid of the Al Qaeda training camps and weakened the Taliban.
But we just stayed there, became and occupying force and let the Taliban recover.