Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "America’s Longest War: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (2021)" video.

  1. The USA's longest war in terror Two decades plus of investment in a heroin-fuelled post-mujahadeen stan space. HQ1: the problem set. Four-side near three-point. No t-shirt. That's a negative. More than hundreds and thousands as the hundreds raise up. Now the government (they say) cannot allow the female masjid to madrass her. Else the girls school up. Inside a triangle, the sound is not the same. Because 'we' can. Or could rather. No list. No trade. No routes in. No Afghan, No Iraq - even at the behest of a government allowance. Nineteen + one. A boss. A financier. The unknowns. Picture that. Call the Chinaman? I think it is now in Ghana sir. U-no, the blackstarr liner... See, the investments had shifted somewhere else: personnel and materiels had shifted to the conventional ISISGWOT. It's been turned over? Since when? A two-front operational demand produced the stresses required to generate European investment. Old, new, needs and exacting treasure wasn't going to be cheap - even with the CNN effect in effect. Between 2011 and 2019 the lack of growth and continued stagnation became diametrically opposed. A $-tag on the blood of a plan was worth more than cash, especially one run by a kleptocracy. By definition the direction was on lock. A little known lessons learnt report was identified early on. Long sentences issued by the WP were published in the public domain to reveal a somewhat expanded version of events not previously known. Doctrinal excuses belied a truth that became increasingly silenced - masked or not. Back when the cables started flying across a brace of remarks that contextually, back in 06, rang bells. The state of affairs remained unresolved out of context. By 08, the British looked to have failed. Yet again. The chains looked in. Leakages, leaks and because of facts that poured out five-fold. A GP in the east might have conveyed neutrality yet still the runs added up. Uncovering the morass of friendship and what it did not entail was a lesser evil. As it was then seen. Boots, shades, a kickback and then a misdirected path that didn't work as intended. The big one with pennies made for ready, lock and load. No problem: afghan heart, afghan mindset. A cup of tea just to provoke an ambush seemed tactically false. Frustration added units of blood, units of treasure. Amid vocalized threats and reminiscent offenses, the then POTUS in VA officially announced the new phase: stability, training, development and universal education. --- End the war? Just because you're not wrong, it doesn't necessarily make you right, correct or in the right. Was it worth it? The output was subject to review and lessons learned from the withdrawal were analyzed in DOD and on The Hill. The 45 was an instincts-based era. Clarity of blowback prior to blowback was nigh-on an impossible request yet the DJ. deal was inherited on 46. A roadmap to surrender for the US state was unthinkable. Twin-track negotiations could have been unified in a manner that could have saved time without sacrificing the bureaucracy that GWOT forces had taken so long to help construct. The full-costs are still in unknowns. Planning, training, mission consequences and the overall conduct of performance in a rationally centered CBA balance-sheet figure continues to be unavailable. Less bloodloss, less family divisions and less care for failure may well have produced entirely different results. The general lies that built-up prior to withdrawal had little impact yet the effects remain. Emotional processing using different forms of communication techniques serve many a network yet it is still not known what the total parameterized output would look like in the public sphere. Far-flung foreign adventures whilst returning to a place only previously known as home created disturbances, generated anger and had former serving personnel asking questions of their leadership which risked raising thresholds that much closer to the draft. If the gap between the minority and the majority had divorced beyond reasonable doubt then events like J6 could have raised further Congressional-level investigations both at home and abroad. Independents aside, the concepts were alleged to have been squandered by short-term visions that were not aligned inside the twenty-year timetable. --- Making the strategic choice to exit would have been no simple decision for those personnel required to leave, nor for those personnel and civilians that had assisted, trained with, worked alongside and executed part of the GWOT fight vision. Without any integration, the lack of clarity across Westernized governance functions imposed on families and communities across Afghanistan were almost irreversible in scope. Many died. The graveyard plots did not decrease. In cost or space. --- Crisis assistance lines have since been set-up to assist personnel and former personnel suffering or living with the aftermath of GWOTUSA's 20-year investment in 🇦🇫.
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