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Twenty more years in Afghanistan wouldn’t have helped. During our occupation there, its government was rated the most corrupt on Earth.
The Afghan president had some close family members supplying opium to fuel our current U.S. opioid crisis.
Our money spent on the Afghan army exceeded that nation’s budget.
Many Afghan troops deserted when they got their first paycheck.
Afghan company commanders absconded with the payrolls. Many of their units existed only on paper.
Members of the Taliban had a safe haven next door in Pakistan whenever we pursued them.
Afghan soldiers repeatedly shot our troops in the back when we were trying to assist them.
The U.S. Army War College said our starting another war in Iraq while mired in the Afghan graveyard of empires was a colossal mistake.
Leaving Fort Drum for Iraq, our general said we’ll be in Iraq for another generation.
When they learned that the Americans were leaving, quite a number of Afghan army personnel went to the Taliban and switched sides. Now the American people are told for the first time that ISIS, not the Taliban, exploded a bomb at the airport, killing U.S. troops and Afghan civilians on our last day there.
Let those two terrorist groups kill each other off. Without a draft (and good riddance), Afghanistan and Iraq became endless and winless wars, the kind of wars that therefore become unjust and immoral.
Let’s honor our warriors but not the wars.
Roland Van Deusen
Clayton
Johnson Newspapers 7.1
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one of the very few things trump deserves credit for is negotiating with the taliban to get us out of there, and biden deserves an enormous amount of credit for seeing it through in remarkably successful fashion.
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