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Yeah, it's not like the Taliban outlasted the U.S. Armed Forces and then decimated the conventionally equipped and firepower superior ANSDF in the course of roughly five years of combat. Oh wait... The Taliban did do all of what you're saying they couldn't do here against the U.S. and its...

May/June was a taste of what a Second ACW would actually be like, rather than a repeat of the first which many seem to assume would be repeated, often along Red/Blue state lines. Problem with that is there is a sliding scale of Red/Blue and, in a general sense, there isn't any such distinctions...

Poll: A third of Americans say violence against the government can be justified By the numbers: A majority of adults still say violence is never justified. But that number, 62%, is a new low, per the Post. Some 90% believed it was never justified in the 1990s. The new poll found that 40% of...

Ya'll are more optimistic than I am, I have felt since last year the parallels with the late stage USSR are uncanny and this with Afghanistan has only further proved it to me. I wouldn't be surprised if we collapse just as quickly as the Soviets did, within the next 2-5 years even. It's worth...

I'm in too many debates at the moment, so for the sake of my own sanity, I'll concede on this.

No, because for one I never made those claims; if you're talking about scale, then yes, the Soviets were worse than us when they were in Afghanistan. That wasn't the point of contention however, which was that we tried brutal tactics in Afghanistan and definitely so in Vietnam where we matched...

Exactly this; there won't be formal lines like the first because both parties are beholden to the same interests and thus have every reason to oppose such a conflict. It will instead be organic and then filter into a formalized structure, probably being like the Troubles until the system weakens...

No, we just did Gitmo, Abu Ghraib (Tbf, Iraq War here but you get the point) and CIA-funded death squads that murdered women and children; also known as the KDF which just surrendered in full to the Taliban lol.

We did this in Vietnam and Afghanistan, to an extent. It didn't work....