Think about this - 16 years in Afghanistan

[madaboutharry]

The U.S. has been in Afghanistan for 16 years.

There are now soldiers in the military who were 2 years old when the first troops were sent to Afghanistan.

[elleng]

1. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response,

1978–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/soviet-invasion-afghanistan

War in Afghanistan (1978–present)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(1978%E2%80%93present)

[hlthe2b]

2. We don't learn squat from history. Lawrence of Arabia (yeah, that one) wrote in journals

what an endless war pit was Afghanistan, which G. Britain had to learn over three conflicts before ever entering in once again with the US. Russia was there for 10 years.


Good gawd....

[underpants]

10. One of many.

The Afghanistan area has been invaded many times in recorded history, but no invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time, and at some point faced rebellion. Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire of ancient India, Alexander the Great of Macedon, Umar, an Arab Caliphate, Genghis Khan of Mongolia, Timur of Persia and Central Asia, the Mughal Empire of India, various Persian Empires, the British Empire, the Sikh Empire, the Soviet Union, and most recently a coalition force of NATO troops, the majority from the United States, which entered the country in the first-ever invocation of NATO's Article 5 "an attack on one is an attack on all" following the September 11 attacks in the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan

[spanone]

3. the longest war in our history.

[marylandblue]

4. "Don't get into a land war in Asia"

You'd think we would have learned why not in Vietnam.

[7wo7rees]

5. We've been in Afghanistan for way longer than that!

Charlie Wilson.

Fuck this g d'ed f'ing narrative!!

Afghanistan is the death of empires throughout the centuries. Never conquered, never will be.

[Skittles]

6. I usually will mention how old the new soldiers were on 9/11/01

that's an attention grabber

[elleng]

7. When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

-- Rudyard Kipling

[RKP5637]

8. This entire Afghanistan war is sick from day one. n/t

[Initech]

9. And we declared war on the wrong country!

Everyone thought Osama was in a cave in Afghanistan. Instead he was in a bunker in Pakistan! And the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE and Qatar, and got their funding from Saudi Arabia. But facts are fake news to republicans.

[LenaBaby61]

11. Instead he was in a bunker in Pakistan!

Everyone thought Osama was in a cave in Afghanistan. Instead he was in a bunker in Pakistan! And the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE and Qatar, and got their funding from Saudi Arabia. But facts are fake news to republicans.

+ 1,000

[raven mad]

12. ....

Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we've been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute.

John F. Kelly

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/afghanistan.html