So Afghanistan...lets talk about it.

[the2real4mafol]

sethnintendo said:

the2real4mafol said:

When will countries learn just to not invade Afghanistan?, it has humiliated the British Empire, the USSR and now the USA. The Afghan war was such a waste of time and human life, i don't know why people really though this war was a good idea. What was this war supposed to achieve anyway? it don't seem like much came out of it to me. The money wasted on this war, could of really benefited some people in the US. The same applies to the other failure, Iraq, which actually had no purpose at all, it seems.

 

Just leave quickly, like you did in Vietnam and be done with it. And just don't declare war again, the US had proved to be incompetant at it

The point of Afghanistan was to remove the Taliban from power.  We didn't really like them that much because they would give us Bin Laden.  Representatives from the Taliban even visited the USA before the war (we were friends up to the point of 9/11 with the Taliban).  The war wasn't even fought by that many troops at first.  Was mainly special ops and CIA giving shitloads of money to the Northern Alliance and using air power for support.  Most Americans are tired of the wars and no one really cared after Bush left office.  Very few Americans even care about the wars anymore and there are more news reports on reality TV stars in USA than there is war coverage.

USA is competent at fighting wars.  Iraq and Afghanistan fell pretty easily.  We just suck at maintaining the peace and nation building (the two most important steps after a war).  Pretty tough though when you are in a country where most of the people don't want you there to begin with.

I just don't believe there was a point to going to Afghanistan. It just seems like the truth on who caused 9/11 is very cloudy. Also, i swear the USA helped the Taliban to defeat the Soviets in the 1980's. How can the ally become an enemy that quick? 

But anyway, America may have toppled the regime in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they are so politically unstable now. And if all they wanted to do was get of Saddam Hussein, why didn't leave straight afterwards? The war in Iraq didn't end until 2010, but Hussein was overthrown and killed in 2003, not long after the invasion. Sometimes, wars should just not happen at all, Iraq is definately one of those wars. Afghanistan, did one thing right, it lead to more equal rights for women, although that wasn't intentional but happened as Taliban lost some power.