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

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**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474 "2021-07-28T02:12:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/1533 "2021-08-16T03:19:12Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> 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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wants-to-draw-down-troops-in-afghanistan-and-iraq-good-or-bad-idea/925840/65) at any point in the foreseeable future.

> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.

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