Let's Get This Clear: Unlike the Greeks, the Brits and the Soviets, the United States Was NOT Chased Out of Afghanistan.

Just look at the casualty counts.

We pulled out because the American people tired of nation building. We lost the will to help re-build that nation.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

Any of those empires could have stayed longer fought more if they thought the cost would ever have been worth it.

Same with America and France in Vietnam.

It is a defeat but the main point is that the war itself was a bad move.