The real story about Afghanistan is...

[packman]

[cilla4progress]

1. Same old

Same old.

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[Solly Mack]

3. Oh, I think we can safely say we were lied to from the get-go.

[crickets]

13. ⭐

[Bev54]

4. No doubt some have a hand in the chaos that is happening now

To make Biden look bad. There are too many Trumpers and war mongers along with their friends who make money off the wars.

[roamer65]

5. Afghanistan is an observer nation in SCO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

It is now under the Sino-Russian sphere of influence.

China will subjugate if needed.

[IronLionZion]

9. Good luck with that

Russians have experience failing so badly the Soviet Union collapsed. China is welcome to try if they think Afghanis are going to be as easy as the Uighurs.

[PatrickforB]

12. They don't call Afghanistan the 'graveyard of empires' for nothing.

China won't do any better than we did. Or the Persians, Romans, Greeks, Mongols, or the British Raj. And let's not forget the Soviets.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. China will fail too.

[bahboo]

6. the real story is who is going to win the narrative on this....

not feeling real positive at the moment....

[Jon King]

7. Agreed, Reupgs will latch onto this through 2022 and 2024.

We know Repugs will latch onto this and make it the number one campaign issue saying Biden embarrassed America and left girls and women to suffer. This and the border situation is what they will run on.

What its gets them, we shall see.

[twodogsbarking]

8. So much for the happy ending.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. I want my money back. Still want Bush and Cheney in jail for war crimes too. I recognize neither

will happen, any more than holding a country whose 17 (of 19) hijacker/ terrorists were the cause of 9-11 and the whole subsesequent two decades

[Martin Eden]

14. Bush and Cheney in jail for war crimes

When Bush left office I wrote this poem for what I'd like to say to his face:

I'd tell you to go fuck yourself
But that is much too kind
For if you could perform that feat
You'd take pleasure in your behind

I'd like to say eat shit and die
But you deserve much more
You should suffer all the grief and pain
Of your misbegotten war

Though I can never make you think
Or feel, or understand
I'll take solace when you hear your name
Cursed throughout the land

From inside a lonely prison cell
Dark and bare and cold
Where every day you pay for your crimes
Until you're sick, heartbroken, and old

Then when you finally leave this earth
You fucked over oh so well
If there is a God and afterlife
You're going straight to hell.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I like it! Poetic justice indeed. He will not fare well in the after-life.

[Jetheels]

11. War Is For Profit

end of story.