re: #169 albusteve

of course, but what can we do about it?…we are pulling out in a year, even Biden gloated about it…Afghanistan is effectively lost now…pisses me off to no end

We’ve lost Afghanistan because we haven’t learned from history, we’ve simply repeated it yet again. We should have called Karzai on rigging the election to keep his corrupt ass in power, but instead we (once again) are propping him up because he claims to be at least nominally “on our side.”

I predict that, within 6 months of our final departure, he’ll have made “peace” with the Taliban and joined in thumbing his nose at us. Within a year, he’ll be dead or in exile, the Taliban back in power and our “liberation” nothing more than billions of dollars burned up or in the pockets of Afghani warlords.