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[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by Thorgrimm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't think anyone opposed ending a major US presence in Afghanistan and the war

We still have troops in South Korea (30 Thousand) for example and there isn't a war there raging. It's a deterrence. The same philosophy applied to Afghanistan. American Air Power and Intelligence was still going to be used as a deterrence (Soleimani) and during negotiations with The Trump Administration when The Taliban rattled their sabers and tested him, they were crushed.

You're forgetting one very important detail.

South Korea has economic value to us. Afghanistan has nothing (unless the CIA is still trying to flood our bottom feeders with heroin).

Remember when the US had a major heroin epidemic in the northeast before covid? What do you think that was fueled by?

[Thorgrimm]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You're forgetting one very important detail.

South Korea has economic value to us. Afghanistan has nothing (unless the CIA is still trying to flood our bottom feeders with heroin).

I don't disagree that it's a backwards shithole and we should have never gone there. It's been a graveyard for ending empires for centuries.