History Learner
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Hey, we are the most powerful military in the world.
What and how awful the ANA are is not our fault.
Who built, funded, and trained that army?
Hey, we are the most powerful military in the world.
What and how awful the ANA are is not our fault.
Does that mean we can make it perfect?Who built, funded, and trained that army?
I don’t think anyone expected it to be perfect, but it would have been nice if it had existed at least…Does that mean we can make it perfect?
Yes they are that was supposedly the last flight out
Does that mean we can make it perfect?
Blame the idiots in the ANA wanting money and relying on the US
Huh.Given you had 20 years, $80 Billion a year and almost 3,000 American sons, fathers and husbands, yes, it fucking does mean you should've got that right. Hell, the Russians pulled out in '89 and the DRA outlasted the USSR until it collapsed in 1992; there are no excuses for this failure and you don't get to hide behind "it's not our fault that the soldiers we spent all this money and time training fell apart in a single campaign season!".
Who installed those idiots? Remind me where the ANA was on September 11, 2001.
Huh.
What could they have done differently? Why is it our fault the ANA were corrupt, untrustworthy, infiltrated by the Taliban, money seeking idiot of high command?
It is almost like they never wanted us to leave and were ill prepared for us to.
WHAT COULD WE HAVE DONE?
Once you answer that, you will get your answer
Okay.Because you created it from the ground up, trained it and until this very year was its main source of funding; the costs for the ANSDF exceeded what GIRoA collected in a year, every year. Given the numerous structural issues present and 20 fucking years to correct them all, yeah, you fucked up and no amount of blame shifting can erase that. If you're having to ask me, a dude on the internet, when you are supposedly someone working in U.S. intelligence what you could have done differently then that just proves my point; the entire system you work in has no fucking clue what its doing and quite frankly the consequences of its dramatic failure playing out right now on TV screens all across America should result in it being entirely shut down. You wasted $1 Trillion and 3,000 American lives for nothing. Own this defeat.
I don’t think anyone expected it to be perfect, but it would have been nice if it had existed at least…
lmao @ spooks getting fucked over because a social media guy wanted a picture to say biden is "presidential" or "responsible" with.White House outs intelligence officials, locations in Twitter post
The White House appears to have inadvertently revealed the identities and locations of intelligence officials in the Middle East in a Twitter post on Sunday.thepostmillennial.com
Doxed.
Good luck with your new isolationist policy, America. You don't want to be involved in the Middle East? You're an empire, not just any regular country. You don't get a choice. You think the power vacuum you're leaving behind will simply remain unfilled? You think the chaos you caused has nothing to do with you and won't touch you? In a decade or two don't act surprised when the Middle East you left will come directly to you instead, just like it did once already 2 decades ago.
even Afghans with valid visas or booked flights are now stuck at the airport.
Fight your own wars.