Afghanistan

I believe the reason we lost Afghanistan is that our objective wasn't to take over the country. If we did this and then turned it over to the proper owners we might have more success. I welcome your thoughts on the subject.

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SWisGoingWoke · M

Also, not trying to tell you you are wrong, but we never 'had' Afgh.

We were IN Afgh, but it was never ours and we never really controlled anything. The reports I saw were that after a new recruit in the Afghani Army would be issued a weapon, US forces would find him with a buddy out on a remote stretch of road setting up a road block to extort people ($) when they drove by. The entire country is corrupt.

We had no need to be there.
We had no goals, no purpose, no reason to occupy Afgh. We should have bailed 18 years ago, before our boy's blood was wasted on that hell hole.