re: #261 The Pie Overlord!

The truth is there was never any outcome other than a quick Taliban takeover no matter who was President of the US. The US undertook a gradual withdrawal over a number of years and every single time the Taliban immediately seized power. There never was any Afghan Government in the last 20 years that wasn’t totally and 100% propped up by $billions USD per year funded by US taxpayers …and still would have immediately folded if the US withdrew despite the Trillions spent. Well, here we are.

The US taxpayer could have funded this Pentagon-directed sham 1 year, 10 years, 1000 years and the exact same result would have been the same except with more and more money down the toilet. Afghanistan is not and will never be a democracy in any Western sense of the word. Islam and local tribal norms are their history and future. The world will have to readjust and learn how to deal with the Taliban isolated in their little corner of the world for a long time.