Does anyome changed their mind about the Afghan War?

I asked because it was widely supported at the time of the invasion.

Have you changed your mind on this? If so, why? Do you think it could ever have worked out and what do you think would have been a good outcome? Do you feel you were lied to?

Please keep the Trump vrs Biden stuff off the thread because it's not relevent to my question. Thanks.

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Northwest · M

All along, this has been my opinion:

1. We should not have invaded Afghanistan. There were better ways to deal with with the threat against the USA.

2. But we did invade, so trying to fix what we broke became a moral imperative.

3. But try as we may, we cannot fix what was broken, and had nothing to do with our invasion, and by that I mean society, so we should stop our attempt to build a nation in our image.

4. But we did exactly that, and that earned us another decade in Afghanistan as we tried to salvage our investment.

5. And 20 years later, it's time to leave. It's going to be messy and there is no possible way to prevent the chaos, no matter how much planning is done. It's like major surgery, there will be loss of blood, and post-op consequences, no matter how skilled the surgical team might be.

I have not changed my mind about any of this.