Quote (Thebarba @ Nov 16 2022 08:36am)
If saving lives of American service people and allies was a known factor, and secondarily preventing cutting edge military assets from falling into enemy hands, an overwhelming majority of the American public would prefer to take the time and do it right. Far too much was sacrificed in the pursuit of a hasty, sloppy retreat.
what is the exact body count of americans who died?
as to assets, we shit assets. and most of it was destroyed before we left, in pieces for cavemen to waste time trying to put back together. we did leave a helicopter tho, which they crashed.
its just like cooking a meal, if you spend 30 minutes dirtying dishes it takes as long or more to clean them up. we spent years there, doing missions to recover all out items would have been a waste. not only that but some assets were left for the doomed govt to hopefully hold off the taliban. they laid those arms down and let them march in in days. decades spent building up a govt who waved the white flag. that doomed "army" is our legacy in the country, something that from bush to obama to trump to biden we failed on.
in any case, while i detest the taliban, can we call them a true enemy? what threat to US lives do they pose now vs 9-11 and the wake of those attacks? honest question.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Nov 16 2022 08:09am