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The world spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to help you. It didn't take.
Yep didn’t we remove their horrid government, hold elections, try to support a more liberal government through multiple decades in the longest war the US has ever engaged in?
And wasn’t that a massive overreach of our role in the first place?
I feel for these women but this headline can go get fucked.
Yeah, those helpful drones.
Oh, don't act like that's all the last 20 years was.
We spent two decades trying to train up their army with direct hands on mentorship and equipment, they rolled over and surrendered immediately.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make the people overthrow their religious fascist government.
United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan - Wikipedia
On behalf of all the veterans of this conflict, fuck you.
Those needless military casualties are equally on the hands of our elite and their shares in arms companies.
And think of the Afghan people themselves. They don't know peace because of us.
You got me! I'm the head of Exxon, and Raytheon, I also manufacture opioids on the side. I'm all about empire.
Fuck the 250,000 Afghanis that died.
No you’re just a thoughtless clod who said something stupid on the internet. Try not to enjoy being called out on it.
Keep pretending Captain Amerika was saving the Afghans.
Whatever, fool, I protested that war in the streets.
Decent point. But then why send them back?