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It doesn’t just suck, it completely reinstated the taliban in Afghanistan. The deal was absolutely awful. As the US we set the terms, what would Afghanistans leverage even be in this negotiation?
Comment by Slagothor48 at 08/09/2024 at 16:45 UTC*
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No, we don't get to dictate terms to other countries, that's not how negotiations work. We were there for 20 years and accomplished fuck all. It was way past time to end the war and if Afghanistan wants to be a shithole run by Islamic extremists that's their fucking problem.
Maybe we shouldn't have been funding the Mujahideen and Osama bin Laden in the 80s if we cared about stopping terrorist organizations.
Comment by JeffTS at 08/09/2024 at 20:39 UTC
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You know what also sucked? Bush/Cheney, Obama/Biden, and Trump/Pence keeping us in Afghanistan for 20 years. And also Biden's half-assed withdrawal that removed troops before citizens/allies and that left billions of American military assets there for the Taliban to use and sell to our enemies.