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

Hit another kid, they hit you back (harder than expected) . Walk away looking macho, and pretending it doesn't hurt.

"I so could have kicked his ass but it wasn't worth it!"

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@Burnley123

Please keep it in perspective.

We lost more personnel in a few hours at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 than we did in 20 years in Afghanistan.

LeopoldBloom · M

@beckyromero Afghanistan was retaliation for 9/11, which was around 3000 people killed.

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@LeopoldBloom

Just keeping it in perspective.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@beckyromero His comment was for that purpose. 2,000 people died on 9/11. It's a number dwarfed by the number of coalition troop losses which is again dwarfed by the loss of Afghan lives.

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@Burnley123

Walk away looking macho, and pretending it doesn't hurt.

I don't think that's an accurate assessment.

LeopoldBloom · M

@Burnley123 We never count the deaths of the locals in the places we invade.