we were not hot for the Taliban before 9-11, the primary stated reason to go was Bin Laden and we lost him early. The rest is nation building. I saw the video of the woman shot at the soccer stadium because she showed her ankles getting out of a van. I was very angry. So what! We built them up to fight the soviets and then we went back because they were muslims? That’s BS.
We can’t make every country in our likeness. Do you really give a damn about that pile of rocks? We should be more worried about Iran having a bomb and ICBMs and fermenting terrorism and get the hell out of dodge city. We’re in the wrong country and have been since Bin Laden left, including Iraq. Iran needs a serious beat down and we’re chasing rag head fundamentalist from village to village in a wind swept 10th century nothing country.
They’ll own Kabul by the end of nest year. What you wanna do about that? I say leave now and let them kill each other. if the regulars don’t want the taliban, they will fight. If they don’t fight; why the hell should we?
As I recall we went into Afghanistan because they aided abetted Bin Laden as they planned the 911 attacks. So we had a vested issue in keeping the Taliban in power there. Should they return and participate in another movie terrorist attack I think we’d blame our keDers for failing to act.
However the will to win that I refer to is nit the conflict I’m talking about. Whether to stay, or withdraw, or something in between are largely tactical decisions. I’m asking if we have the will to defend Western Culture. Muslim extremists seem much more highly motivated.