3,405 died for nothing

[WuWei]

@Safiel

Opposing any conflict does not, IN ANY WAY, cast aspersions on the honor or gallantry of the men and women fighting it.

Except the civil war.

[WuWei]

They left in '02, they weren’t removed.

You’re right about staying for a decade. But allowing them to become a political party is how this almost always ends.

[WuWei]

The Taliban is not an international terrorist group.

[WuWei]

It’s not a policy failure.

[WuWei]

No there haven’t.

[WuWei]

What’s different about now?

[WuWei]

Well done. Except for the sigh. Grow up.

[WuWei]

Shut up…

[WuWei]

It will be in a year.

[FloridaYankee]

@DougBH

@FloridaYankee

Are they still harboring the USA’s most wanted terrorist?

These people seem to forget that the reason we went into Afghanistan was that the Al Quaida camps and leaders responsible for the attack on New York were stationed there. We did not demand the removal of the Taliban, we demanded that the Taliban allow us to remove Al Quaida. And we gave them months.
The only alternative to going in would be to 1) allow this to be used as a base for future attacks or 2) level the place the way we did Germany and Japan.
In todays world, we would have been called war criminals…including by many in the US.

Exactly. They forget what the main goal was in the first place.

[WuWei]

LOL stick to your guns, you’re doing great!

[WuWei]

@WildRose

Stop deflecting and give a straight answer for a change.

Try giving a straight answer for a change if you can.

What was the point of the invasion?

What was the goal?

@WildRose

And abandoning it then would have been a mistake of historic proportions resulting in us just having to go back in eventually against a much better equipped, trained, and hardened enemy in the future.

See Iraq after the pullout as a perfect example.

You said the same thing.

[TheRedComet]

If the Taliban decides to use this as a breather and after NATO leaves decides to rearm and start it up again can the ANA handle it?

That’s my concern.

[Excast]

You can’t bomb a philosophy out of existence. When American foreign policy finally understands that concept we will all be much better off.

[SixFoot]

You know nothing about what they died for, especially since you weren’t there.

[Smyrna]

Damn dude…we found common ground. So now, can you elaborate on arming the Libyan rebels who killed both Gaddafi and our Ambassador?

[SixFoot]

Half of them, yes.

[WuWei]

Nazism was a philosophy. So was imperialism.

[SimplyTrying]

At least Fifty thousand American lives were lost because of the Vietnam war.

Many people still claim that was righteous.

[7ranz]

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