Afghanistan
mark94
Arizona
Sunday, August 15, 2021 6:02 PM
Just five weeks ago, President Biden assured Americans: “[T]he likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
In the last 72 hours, the Taliban has taken over the entire country. The Afghan President has fled. Billions of dollars of US weapons are in the hands of the Taliban. The 300,000 member Afghan army has effectively surrendered.
It’s not just Biden’s fault though he was exceedingly incompetent. For 20 years, a series of US Presidents spent $2 Trillion trying to make a primitive land of tribal factions into a modern democracy. It was never going to work.
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