On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:04 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> *> The Talibans are worst than ISIS,* Agreed. *> I was hoping that America stays much longer in Afghanistan,* After 20 years, 2448 dead American soldiers, and 2 trillion dollars down the drain (enough to land a man on Mars, and with just another 3 or 4 trillion you could bring him back home again) I think it's time to say enough is enough. Biden figured If they can't stand on their own 2 feet by now they never will be able to. And as events proved, the instant they were no longer being propped up they collapsed instantaneously. We should've gotten out in 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed. > *and fight against the corruption which put the democracy at risk,* Most Afghans don't seem to want democracy very much if at all, they're certainly not willing to fight for it, but most are more than willing to die for their crackpot religion. The USA could and did buy lots of weapons for the Afghans, but they couldn't buy the will to fight with them. * > and I think that this event is again a major catastrophe for *all* > democracies.* Yes, but it's an even greater catastrophe for China. Afghanistan is on China's doorstep and as much as the Taliban hate Americans they hate godless communists even more, and there are about 70 million Muslims in China. I don't think the Taliban will be shy about inciting that Chinese minority to cause internal trouble. > *> Biden felt in a major trap left by Trump, imo.* Yes but given that the only alternative was to stay in Afghanistan forever I think Biden made the right choice. It had to happen sometime and whenever it happened the results would be ugly, so it might as well happen now. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> oqo aqa nb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1PCUbC-BzmaFRcT47%2Bcmi6hyAMEFYbDo1ZH3QPH_9WcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
