Afghanistan

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There have been several OPs on what a failure Afghanistan was and is and how every administration for twenty years has failed to recognize what the British and Russians eventually recognized. This was our turn.

'We've spent trillions and lost many lives. Afghanistan's government and military could never stand on their own. We needed to withdraw.''

"Bluntly put: the U.S. has failed abysmally in creating an Afghan state from the bottom up. As John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General in Afghanistan said last month, U.S. officials in multiple administrations have carried "this hubris that we can somehow take a country that was desolate in 2001 and turn it into little Norway.”"

www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/08/15/taliban-verge-victory-still-withdrawal-afghanistan-right/8112181002/