RE: I know I'm in the minority with this one-but this is a slippery slope in my opinion
September 30, 2019 at 1:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2019 at 1:16 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 22, 2019 at 5:49 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(September 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm)TaraJo Wrote: A few thousand people die and it's a national tragedy and we can't ever forget it. Ok, I'm not going to argue we deserved 9/11 but we kinda did. We bomb other nations all the time, killing thousands of people in the process. I wish Americans had the insight to realize that what we consider a horrible tragedy is exactly what we routinely do to other people. Our foreign policy used to be "Speak softly and carry a big stick," but now we've decided to beat everyone into submission with our stick and play nice with the people who are too scared to say anything about it.
74 people a day are still killed in Afghanistan by the conflict the US started and walked away from.
https://www.albawaba.com/news/74-people-...th-1309433.
In fairness, the US merely re-ignited what had been a on-going civil war that dated to before the Soviet withdrawal, and only held in abeyance by the temporary ascendency of the Taliban. The temporary suspension was extremely unlikely to last even if the US never intervened. The parties in the civil war had deep entanglements with 2 regional nuclear powers. How uncontrolled flare up of the civil war in Afghanistan would affect Pakistan and India, to say nothing of the other central Asian states on the periphery of former Soviet Union, is hard to say, but unlikely to be less unpleasant than what had transpired there in the last 18 years.
It wasn't the intervention in Afghanistan that was the massive strategic blunder. It was the invasion of Iraq that followed.
