The war was won in a couple of months with very little bloodshed, mostly just CIA running around with briefcases of money buying up local warlords. It was the following peace that was hard to win. The British ruled the country for a while as well, until they found out the hard way that controlling Kabul wasn’t the same way as controlling the whole country. Conquering a country with no real central authority is hard.
The Talibans had promised to turn over Bin Ledan to a trial in a neutral third country since they stated they didn’t think he could get a fair trial in USA. From the US perspective that wasn’t enough, the public wanted blood, piles of skulls.
Also, not even a single one of the 19 hijackers was Afghani. Fifteen of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, the rest were from Lebanon, Egypt and the UAE.
Wow, I think I get it why my brother worked so hard to be a pilot. I always wondered why he was suffering through so much training the Army gave him (apart from the Army trying to winnow out the majority of trainees who wouldn’t be able to cut it, just like the process for medical school students).
And that time they invaded Tibet. It was a slaughter of something like >1 million people, after one adds in the deaths of imprisoned and those who died of exposure and starvation, IIRC.
Military service is 99.99% about things NOT involving pulling a gun trigger. Most Americans would never make it to the part of the battle where actual gun fire occurs.
He’d have until early November 2023 to make noises about it. Whether or not he actually intended to go through with it, it might be good for ratings to hint/troll about it. I’m still in a fair bit of disbelief that Reagan/Bush/Dole/Bush/Romney/Trump were considered reasonable people to run for president, but that’s who was chosen. Especially Trump. I’m sure anyone who ever for a second considered running for president, gave it a few extra seconds of consideration when he won.
Of course, the same is true of red and blue regions of our country, and it seems to make no difference to the GQP. Trying to apply logic to this shit is like trying to reason with toddlers.
The “national security” people have convinced themselves that it’s America’s job to maintain the corpse of the old British Empire, which includes policing the South China Sea because reasons
Voters can’t stop it because both parties want to keep doing this
