because the war was never supposed to endwar is a money-printing machine for the powers that be and they wanted it to go on forever
why else would they have made no effort over the past twenty years to make a coherent country out of Afghanistan, which is a bastard agglutination of unconnected tribes to begin with? You can't appeal to national identity to make Afghans reject the Taliban, because they have no concept of national identity; only tribal identity.
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Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 16 Aug 2021, 19:19,
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By "money-printing machine" you presumably mean "eye-wateringly expensive"?(
Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 16 Aug 2021, 19:23,
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it prints money for them, not for us(
Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 16 Aug 2021, 19:37,
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“a bastard agglutination of unconnected tribes” — b3ta, you mean(
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 16 Aug 2021, 22:24,
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