LizardChaser t1_j641r6h wrote on January 27, 2023 at 3:50 PM

Reply to comment by soonerfreak in Afghan malnutrition rates at record high, U.N. food agency says by AttilaTheMuun

>We illegally invaded a country

Citation missing.

>kept their money

Are you, with a straight face, arguing that the U.S. obtained more money from fucking Afghanistan than it put in? Citation super fucking missing.

>especially the bit about them cheering at their return

The quote from my post was: "all but cheered as they returned." Break that down for me. Does that mean I said they cheered? Or was it a way to describe the absence of any resistance--despite being well armed and equipped--as being paramount to a welcome.

>The end goal was always to make some people in the US richer

The response to 9/11, the worst attack on the U.S. since Pearl Harbor, was to make "some people in the U.S. richer"? Do you even believe that?

>we did not go into Afghanistan to liberate it

Then why did we stay for 20 years? How does losing $230 billion into Afghanistan over 20 years make any sense if we weren't trying to make them self-sufficient? We cut bait because if they couldn't figure it out in 20 years they were never going to figure it out.

soonerfreak t1_j64y055 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 7:11 PM

We didn't lose $230 billion in Afghanistan. We transferred a couple trillion dollars right where they wanted it to go. Also Japan the country attacked Pearl Harbor, the Taliban did not commit 9/11. This country did not give a fuck as over 3000 people a day were dying to Covid-19. So yeah its hard to reconcile our complete over reaction to 9/11 with a 20 year occupation that was about spending money on the military when over a million people died to Covid-19 and this country said who cares.