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Tragic.
Truth is the US (and the UK) never should have been there in the first place. The catch 22 is that everyone agrees we couldn't stay there forever but everyone also agrees that as soon as we left it was inevitable that the Taliban would take over again - it was just a question of how long it would take them.
The speed in which they have taken over is quite shocking. I see no point in arguing whether Trump's exit strategy would've been better than Biden's - I'm no military strategist but all the ones I've seen discuss seem to agree it was a matter of weeks or months in regards to how long it would take them to take over.
Another thing that everyone seems to agree on is that the Afghan government that the US set up was incredibly weak and I'm hearing a lot of talk that the Afghan military wasn't anywhere near as trained up as we'd been led to believe. If that's true what the hell has been going on over there for 21 years? That's a failing the Biden, Trump, Obama and W. Bush administrations.
Also I don't truck with talk of how terrible Afghanistan is as a country. For certain period in it's history Afghanistan has been quite liberal for an Islamic country. Alcohol, women's education, tolerance for other religions etc. Heck despite it being a major campaign promise to leave he was persuaded to stay by being shown an old photo of Afghan women wearing mini skirts as proof it could be turned into a nice ally to the America.
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