Mods, OP, why should Afghanistan discussion be disallowed in the Biden Administration thread?

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5 current or recent threads to discuss Afghanistan in, at least one should fit your needs.

Let’s fix Afghanistan, what’s your silly theory?

Every media outlet seems to have had, for days, some form of self declared expert who is there to share what ‘they should have done was…’. It’s getting old already, I think. So here’s MY theory; It occurs to me that things would look very differently, at this point in time, if the foreign forces in country, had decided to train an all female force. Sure it wouldn’t have been easy, but one secret unit and you’d soon have many more. They can hide a lot under those shrouds, after all. They’d be f…

Are the men of Afghanistan simply cowards or is it something else?

The rapid surrender of the ANA and police to the Taliban over the last 2-3 months has me convinced that they are cowards. I understand fear of being killed, I’ve done Afghanistan multiple times. With that said I don’t understand the mindset of the fighting-aged men who are literally handing the country over to Taliban, ensuring their wives and daughters will have miserable lives. These aren’t just a bunch of civilian bakers and carpenters who were captured by some hostile force. These are me…

To honor and respect 20 yrs of sacrifice by our troops, we must stay in Afghanistan forever!

With the withdrawal from Afghanistan, I see a lot of statements by conservatives, military veterans, armchair generals, etc., basically stating that the withdrawal dishonors the servicepeople who fought there for the past 20 years, Yeah, I get it that they would want to chalk this up in the “win” column, but “dishonor”? It’s not like the ref called the game at the last minute just before we were going to score the winning run. Is the intent that we should fight in Afghanistan forever until we…

Have we morally failed Afghanistan?

Geopolitics and 9/11 vengeance aside, have we failed our own sense of freedom and democracy? We are walking away from a 20 year war, leaving the Afghani’s to the Taliban. The Taliban that stands against everything we as Americans, left or right, hold dear.

Afghanistan Today

It takes something fairly big in world news to make the local news here. They say that the Taliban has captured four provincial capitals and Afghanistan will fall within a few days. I know several brave Canadian soldiers who fought in Kandahar for long periods, and who helped build schools thinking they were establishing stability and democracy. I bet they are having a tough time with this. My questions: Does this issue have a personal connection to anyone? What does it mean, locally and g…