Read a nice article today. [
www.theguardian.com]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/...-in-afghanistanRandom thought: If the US could stop invading countries and generating bad will for a couple decades, and perhaps even took a reconciliatory attitude (apologizing for all the flames we fanned) instead of finding things to get upset about with other religions/governing styles, maybe in 30-40 years we'd have less extremist anti-american sentiments to be in conflict with.
For instance, most (young) people in Vietnam don't seem to have any hatred for the US, as far as I understand it. In all honesty it might be a good thing people don't live forever so we can't keep old grudges forever (although some certainly do try to).
My old roommate (from Vietnam) was bewildered when he went to a smaller town in Indiana and talked with a Vietnam vet who was talking about all his friends who died there (basically because it came out of nowhere and it was like he was being blamed for what others did).
Funnily enough, his family's from Saigon, anyway, so they'd likely have been allied with the US regardless.
QUOTE(Honeycat @ Aug 17 2021, 14:45)
Trump was feared and respected when he was president, Potatobrains is nothing but a senile joke and not feared or respected by anyone. He can no way in hell blame anyone but himself. Now there are calls for him to step down.
Trump supporters: We tried to warn you.
I never feared nor did I respect him. He was our Brexit equivalent (the butt of jokes to the international community, and a headache).
This would have happened no matter what president did it. That's why the war lasted over two decades in the first place. We could not win it.
Could the Biden admin. have handled getting all the US's supporters out first in a less horrible way, though? Yeah, probably, if they cared and thought things through (and had the
capacity to think things through).
QUOTE(Anime Janai @ Aug 15 2021, 00:01)
Does the USA recognize "Taliban" as a legitimate government? Trump did not.
Officially, no. But it's sort of like the taiwan deal; they're effectively in control of things but we ignore that and give lip service to the afghani government/PRC government while negotiating under the table.
The major difference being that Taiwan isn't a terrorist sect.
Every president with operations in the middle east in the last couple decades has had to do some form of communication; usually through intermediaries. In this case the intermediary is the afghani government.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 18 2021, 21:48
What was the last thing you thought?, read deed by path.
Aug 18 2021, 02:30
