We should have let, why, helped the Soviets bring Workers Paradise to the land. At the very least, the historical monuments, destroyed later by the Talis, would have been preserved. Instead, we have our and our allies boys dying for nothing. Hopeless.
Why didn't we pursue bin Laden into Pakistan? That's never been clear to me.
Why didn't we leave Afghanistan after bin Laden escaped? Because that would have looked like a failed mission. So, instead of accepting a failed mission, we then had to change the mission to something that might eventually succeed or at least not fail for several years.
It's easier to get into these things than it is to get out.
This article contains about 25 images of the country in the late 1950s/early 1960s. It didn't look that much different than the U.S.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a_time_in_afghanistan
I never gave two shits about girls going to school, or their women, or blah blah blah. Who cares? I care about AMERICANS. Bomb the living crap out them. Keep them in the Middle ages, napalm the poppy fields, and profile on airplanes so that every Afghan is cavity searched. Then GTFO.
Anybody hear from OBL lately? You’da thought he’d come out and say something by now.
1.Pull all regular ground troops out now.
2.Frequently and mercilessly napalm all poppy fields.
3.Keep UAV’s, bombers, A10’s, AC-130s, and attack helicopters in the sky and putting ordinance on targets. Think of it as live-fire training to keep the fliers sharp.
4.Keep Spec-Ops busy there as well. Again, think live-fire training.
That backward-assed country is not ready to join the 21st century. Hell, it’s not even ready to join the 15th century.
Time to get the US out of Germany.
The time to get out of Afghanistan was before Christmas 2001, right after the 4 Trident warheads buried Bin Laden and his buddies at Tora Bora.
If we pull out we owe it to the northern minorities like the Uzbeks to arm them to teeth. The real scumbags in that part of the world are the Pashtuns. Our biggest mistake in Afghanistan was Karzai. We should of realized the Pashtuns were are enemy and could not be trusted. We should have just let the Northern Alliance take over the country. Instead we tried to placate the Pashtuns and Pakistan. Both the lowest form of pond scum.
Ditto yep