How could leaving all that weaponry not be considered a mistake? There is nothing that can be done to undo the inhumanity surrounding the last 20 years, except hold those accountable that deceived and robbed the American people of their losses. There are lots of numbers floating around about the financial debts incurred, and warmongering profiters, but just think of the young lives that were lost. Will there be accountability for any of this?
The weaponry and prisoners were left for the Afghan national army, which did not actually exist because Afghanistan is an area, not a nation. Soldiers were loyal to their families, then their villages, then their clans, and finally to the warlord who protected them in return for their loyalty. There was no Afghan nation to which to be loyal. When the American, British, French and German money stopped, so did the Afghan army and police force.
Accountability? No. Bush started in order to prevent Afghanistan from being used as launch pad for terrorism. When we accomplished that, it was time to withdraw. But there were so many things the people of Afghanistan needed to boost them from the second century BCE to the eighteenth century CE. And we never ran out of needs. Obama called it "the good war," so no help there. Trump tried to exit and put in place an evacuation plan that was condition-dependent. Biden threw away everything Trump and substituted a date dependent plan.
As Hillary Clinton said about Ben Ghazi, "Does any of it really matter?"
How could leaving all that weaponry not be considered a mistake? There is nothing that can be done to undo the inhumanity surrounding the last 20 years, except hold those accountable that deceived and robbed the American people of their losses. There are lots of numbers floating around about the financial debts incurred, and warmongering profiters, but just think of the young lives that were lost. Will there be accountability for any of this?
The weaponry and prisoners were left for the Afghan national army, which did not actually exist because Afghanistan is an area, not a nation. Soldiers were loyal to their families, then their villages, then their clans, and finally to the warlord who protected them in return for their loyalty. There was no Afghan nation to which to be loyal. When the American, British, French and German money stopped, so did the Afghan army and police force.
Accountability? No. Bush started in order to prevent Afghanistan from being used as launch pad for terrorism. When we accomplished that, it was time to withdraw. But there were so many things the people of Afghanistan needed to boost them from the second century BCE to the eighteenth century CE. And we never ran out of needs. Obama called it "the good war," so no help there. Trump tried to exit and put in place an evacuation plan that was condition-dependent. Biden threw away everything Trump and substituted a date dependent plan.
As Hillary Clinton said about Ben Ghazi, "Does any of it really matter?"