Biden says it's up to Afghans to run their country as U.S. leaves

[CrazyZ]

for some strange reason now it is being assumed that $978bn DoD expenditure (which includes wages/salaries that would have been paid regardless of war/no war) was done on borrowed money. assuming interest of a whopping 533 billion, then adding unrelated and normal defense budget increase of 443 billion (which would have happened regardless due to many factors like new innovations, then adding vet pensions and costs of all sorts of unrelated matters

Not sure why a brit cares. AQ has been wiped out. OBL is dead. Any new OBL types can be wiped out for a few million dollars with access provided by Pakistan.

Afghanistan is nothing but a waste of resources for USA. Airlifting in energy drinks and other supplies from the USA to maintain low relevance bases in Afghanistan costs a fortune.....plus those forces could easily be attacked or surrounded by more hostile regional powers. Simply not worth it.

USA government balance sheets are horrible. Same with Britain and rest of NATO. Dollar's future is questioned even by the best American fund managers. It has been a pyrrhic victory for the USA to stay in Afghanistan to keep the Taliban out of Kabul. Biden is the just the first American leader to accept this (I commend him for it).

 

[Thorough Pro]

It took them 20 year to understand, the sleepy joe is not that sleepy, I guess

Biden says Afghans must decide own future; U.S. to leave on Aug. 31

President Joe Biden on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people must decide their own future, rather than sacrificing another generation of Americans in an unwinnable war.

www.reuters.com

So what did American go in there to do?


The only way to get rid of a bully is to give them a bloody nose.

 

[CIA Mole]

If China and Pakistan think they can just hide behind their borders and avoid dealing with Afghanistan, that's just delusional. Both of these countries wanted the US out of Afghanistan and now, when the moment has arrived, wants nothing to do with the country.

Sorry, but it's your problem now.

we invite superpower india to deal with taliban

 

[Falconless]

$1 trillion spent in Afghanistan and has nothing to show for it. Where did all that money go?

Ask defence contractors like Lockheed and Boeing

 

[cloud4000]

we invite superpower india to deal with taliban

They already are. If the Taliban have half a brain, they will keep their options open.