The Afghan Army Soldiers Didn't Fight Because They Rejected What We Expected Them to Fight For
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“... we tried to remake Afghan society into some kind of Central Asian parody of Western wokeness...
... We gave them the future that we wanted them to have, a future that was foreign and undesirable. We paid them to fight for that future, and in the end, they decided they’d rather take their chances with the Taliban and a religion and way of life that was familiar to them.”
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It’s a good thought provoking article.
I would add, we as Americans can’t even be united over our own cultural beliefs within our our own borders (such as voting integrity, corruption in political leaders, welfare state, mandated or individual rights, immigration policies, borders, gays, liberty vs serfdom,. etc, etc). So to a foreign culture what a mixed and confusing message we must have sent.
Not to mention the sudden appearance of rainbow flags and the almost overnight policies of wokeness.
So now I am also wondering to myself, “What does America really stand for in the eyes of other countries”?
“... we tried to remake Afghan society into some kind of Central Asian parody of Western wokeness...
... We gave them the future that we wanted them to have, a future that was foreign and undesirable. We paid them to fight for that future, and in the end, they decided they’d rather take their chances with the Taliban and a religion and way of life that was familiar to them.”
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It’s a good thought provoking article.
I would add, we as Americans can’t even be united over our own cultural beliefs within our our own borders (such as voting integrity, corruption in political leaders, welfare state, mandated or individual rights, immigration policies, borders, gays, liberty vs serfdom,. etc, etc). So to a foreign culture what a mixed and confusing message we must have sent.
Not to mention the sudden appearance of rainbow flags and the almost overnight policies of wokeness.
So now I am also wondering to myself, “What does America really stand for in the eyes of other countries”?
On another note, people say we are not the world's police force. OK, let's talk about soldiers in Germany, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Africa and Central/South America. I give that if we fight them there, we are not fighting them here. I am not an isolationist but the ones that bring it up about Afghanistan are being hypocritical. Another thing about comparing this to Vietnam, well that was pretty well thought out, this, I believe, is a kneejerk reaction and a purely political decision on the part of this Administration. You can refute me if you like but I don't get my facts from the lame stream media, I do research just like I did while I was in the military for 21 years.
The federal government has been corrupt for decades (probably more than a century.)
They have sent Americans as fodder for their war profits for at least 50 years.
This result in Afghanistan was easy to predict. The military industrial complex gets richer and innocent Americans die. That is their plan.
We need to fight for liberty HERE in America against the domestic enemies in DC and NY and other corrupt cities.
Close the US borders to all potential terrorists and restrict immigrants to those with exceptional talents.
Let the Afghans, Vietnamese, and all others fix their own countries while Americans fix ours.
Yes let’s fix our borders now. That must be a priority.
It was and is obvious to any rational person. We are still in Germany approximately 76 years after WWII and culturally speaking the Germans are and have always been much closer to our culture than the people of Afghanistan. I said back then that if we were to go there that it would take a minimum of 3 generations and wiping out the Islamic religion COMPLETELY for us to be successful.
So here we are 20 years later doing EXACTLY what I predicted. It is maddeningly sad to see all of the waste that this has engendered.
When you assume that there are more than one ideology on the LEFT vying for power, things start to make a little more sense.
Biden. Poor Foolish Old Man. There is only one Lord of the Ring. And He does NOT share power.
Makes a lot of America question who they support?
As a libertarian I’m just sitting here watching a bunch of coercive asshats beat on eachother.
They did not fight because they were barely armed, had little ammo, were not paid, were not fed.
They knew, better than us, that plenty of US $ had been sent to pay for all that. We all know that the nominal ex-pres made his escape in a helicopter crammed with cash while others trying to get out tried to hide in plane wheel-wells.
jimslag , thanks for same ideas.
For decades Reagan got credit for winning the cold war. My question is how much Russia's prolonged involvement contributed to their collapse? An additional question is will our prolonged afghan entanglement contribute to our collapse. We live through epochs and learn nothing.