• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The recent history of Afghanistan is complex, but “Pulling out haphazardly after releasing thousands of Taliban fighters against the will of the national government” is, at the very least, a very strong contributing factor to the current state of affairs.

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        14 days ago

        But it’s not the entire reason a country is broken

        So just because the 20 years of US fuckery didn’t cause ALL the problems plaguing the country, it bears NONE of the blame? That logic is more broken than Afghanistan is.

        Everything in the Middle-East is a waste of time.

        First of all, that’s extremely bigoted. Second, Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East.

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        Not releasing an additional 5000 veteran Taliban fighters would have been a good start. Not going above the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban would’ve been a good second step.

        It was never going to be pretty, but it didn’t need to end as badly as it did.