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Re: In the 1842 Afghanistan Massacre, Only 1 British Soldier Survived

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 31 Aug 21 2:43 PM | 22 view(s)
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ps Not sure what Maddow's context is.

Are people over there saying the evacuation was disastrous? Or are they saying UK newspapers are saying it? They may be. I haven't been reading them much. They take offence too easily, in my view.

For myself, I'd say NATO ought to have put a secure perimeter around Kabul. But given they didn't do that, and they were clearly stunned by the collapse of the Afghan army, I think they did pretty well afterwards.

They got a lot of people out.

The number of deaths was relatively small.

So the execution ended up okay, although it was slow to get underway.

It's the strategic decision to leave that to me is worse than staying. Islamist terrorism will probably return to the west because of it. From a terrorist perspective, I preferred the country we had a few years ago to the one we face now.


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Re: In the 1842 Afghanistan Massacre, Only 1 British Soldier Survived
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 31 Aug 21 2:24 PM 		Msg. 43297 of 54959

Indeed.

America joins the line of countries that gave up, which includes everyone else.

But I think the US had the right strategy there. Be the backbone the Afghan army needed. Let them do the hard work.

It would have taken another twenty years of backboning, but then a new generation of educated Afghans would have been in position to take control.

That would have demonstrated America's heroism and given you an almost invincible ally in the region over the long run.

I appreciate that there are people who think that wasn't going to happen. And that is why they decided enough is enough. But then I fall back upon the terrorism issue, which is a cost we will now bear.


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