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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The second part sounds a bit like a copout. They have done military interventions in a lot of different regions. The US has ransacked a growing number of countries just to get rid of a small amount of "baddies".

You don't get to destroy shit and leave. If you play world police, start doing the whole job, not parts of it. And I'm totally fine with US starting less interventions because they don't wanna clean up after themselves. Probably a net positive given the history in the middle east.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I think at this point it's best that the administration just got out because it appeared it was never going to get better. Just my perspective at reading about the attempts to build administration and actually get local citizens to build and manage their own sustainable government structures in place and it never taking off. Just read anything about the army's attempts to create a competent Afghani security force.

We never should have intervened in the first place, and should have gotten out as soon as we could.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I agree with you, but also... they absolutely did not want us there. America isn't trying to colonize.

The people in power are corrupt, the world around. Religious states, doubly so.

We can't even control the zealots rising up in our own country.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, we weren't there for a decade just destroying things. A few years, absolutely. But the rest of the time was spent trying to clean up and rebuild. Maybe the US just isn't good at that, but what else can we do at this point? Returning would just be meddling again and earn ire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rebuilding translates to funding the lavish lifestyles of our puppets. Very colonial.