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In the discussion thread: What's wrong with withdrawing troops from Afghanistan? [View all]

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Tue Nov 17, 2020, 07:29 PM

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What's wrong with withdrawing troops from Afghanistan? [View all]	Jspur	Nov 2020	OP
The problem is that Trump doesn't give a fuck about methods or consequences. The goal is not	RockRaven	Nov 2020	#1
I agree with what you saying about Trump but	Jspur	Nov 2020	#2
What do you mean by "we are still at war with them"?	RockRaven	Nov 2020	#5
What is the US' objective by being in Afghanistan right now?	Jspur	Nov 2020	#7
Instead of asking what the US goal is, ask what Trump's goal is. Because the same "what" with	RockRaven	Nov 2020	#11
This is what people said about Vietnam.	KWR65	Nov 2020	#33
As a person with Afghan friends both here and in Afghanistan	littlemissmartypants	Nov 2020	#3
I understand there is a moral dilema in withrawing from	Jspur	Nov 2020	#4
I don't think you understand what we're doing there.	littlemissmartypants	Nov 2020	#6
enough with the TRAINING THE AFGHAN ARMY schtick	Skittles	Nov 2020	#15
How's this?	littlemissmartypants	Nov 2020	#18
It's a "failed state", so it's going to take a very long time	LeftInTX	Nov 2020	#19
trillions	torius	Nov 2020	#9
I was wrong. According to this article the US spent 45 billion in Aghanistan	Jspur	Nov 2020	#10
That's $45 billion per year -- over the decades it amounts to real money....	Klaralven	Nov 2020	#26
Agreed it comes out to 450 billion over a decade	Jspur	Nov 2020	#29
I do think they should come home, however..	mvd	Nov 2020	#8
Obama's withdrawal from Iraq in 2009 led to ISIS	ansible	Nov 2020	#12
um, NO	Skittles	Nov 2020	#16
Obama's withdrawal from Iraq was too abrupt	LeftInTX	Nov 2020	#20
that may be true	Skittles	Nov 2020	#40
You know damn well this is a RW talking point. Obama had absolutely	bullwinkle428	Nov 2020	#35
President Obama tried to negotiate the agreement, but still not allow	Blue_true	Nov 2020	#44
You are incorrect. ISIS formed in 2004, after Bush invaded Iraq.	Blue_true	Nov 2020	#43
Pull out and	BGBD	Nov 2020	#13
I feel the problem is there will always be terrorist groups that form in	Jspur	Nov 2020	#14
And if the price to keep them on their heels in Afghanistan	BGBD	Nov 2020	#17
You make a good point.	Blue_true	Nov 2020	#45
Sooner or later the US will leave Afghanistan just	DeminPennswoods	Nov 2020	#21
The problem is that when leave	Chainfire	Nov 2020	#23
The problem I have is that we can't protect these people forever.	Jspur	Nov 2020	#31
Yes	bdamomma	Nov 2020	#37
Geopolitically, Putin would want the US tied up	DeminPennswoods	Nov 2020	#41
It's the way it's being done . Afghan Allies also feel abandoned just as the Kurds did . The US	JI7	Nov 2020	#22
Because foreign policy and deployment of American power should NEVER be "willy-nilly"	maxrandb	Nov 2020	#24
Ditto n/t	malaise	Nov 2020	#25
The country should have been split, southeast Pashtuns and northwest Tajik, Uzbek, Darii alliance	Klaralven	Nov 2020	#27
+1	DeminPennswoods	Nov 2020	#42
You are abandoning people who helped us to their deaths...and the Taliban will be back in control.	Demsrule86	Nov 2020	#28
This is one way Trump converted Obama supporters in 2016	BannonsLiver	Nov 2020	#30
No, see, you just miss all of the talking points on the right.	Arthur_Frain	Nov 2020	#32
I feel the exact same way that you do about MIC and	Jspur	Nov 2020	#34
Withdrawing them is one thing, but where he will send them next is another	mtnsnake	Nov 2020	#36
I don't know enough to make a judgment, but I think trump is setting up for '24	ecstatic	Nov 2020	#38
Trump isn't doing this to benefit the US or our troops.... Something else is up.	Chakaconcarne	Nov 2020	#39
I think you're confusing methodology with objective.	LanternWaste	Nov 2020	#46

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