Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

[Kimstu]

@Sam_Stone

But I’ve also said that once you occupied it, you had a responsibility to not let it become a failed state.

Hmm. Last November, for example, you seemed pretty convinced that it was fundamentally impossible to keep Afghanistan from becoming a failed state at any point in the foreseeable future.

@Sam_Stone

I think the Taliban will likely fill whatever power vacuum ensues, but they’ll do it anyway if the U.S. sticks around for another decade and then leaves.

Afghanistan has been vanquishing soldiers of empires for a long, long time. I don’t see a path to a future stable country there at all.