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ProfessorPlum
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August 18, 2021
A shout out and thank you to Biden for ending the farce that was the US occupation of Afghanistan
As is obvious, we built exactly nothing there, especially in the decade since our actual purpose for invading, "to get Bin Laden", was completed. Biden had the courage to end this money-sucking fraud, that would have had the same outcome (or possibly worse) no matter when it ended.
Afghanistan is ungovernable, and we are now the 4th or 5th occupying force to find that out, and this was predictable. All I hear about is crying on the BBC and on the news about this "disaster" but this was a con being run on our tax coffers by the military industrial complex, it was always a disaster, and it is better to have it finally ended.
I wish Trump, Obama, or Bush would have had the guts to end it years earlier.
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