Comments by "TaichiStraightlife" (@TaichiStraightlife) on "Chilling voice memo brings photojournalist and Brianna Keilar to tears" video.
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Spare a moment & a few tears in sympathy for the American taxpayer who paid a trillion bucks of their hard-earned money & watched it spent on the salaries of 80,000 Afghan-Potemkin troops, created from thin air to suck more paychecks paid for by Uncle Sugar, which money then sank without trace in the dark pit of warlord pockets... & in addition, taxpayers could also watch as $billion$ in US foreign aid went to Pakistan, only to find later that the Pakistanis took large swaths of that money, sending it on to their ISI (the Inter-Services Intelligence is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan) which then spent it on arms and ammo for their proxies, the Taliban, who then used it to kill our soldiers.
So we paid for the damn weapons & ammo that killed US & NATO soldiers.
What happened in Afghanistan? It's simple, sadly; there's no there there, & never was. The illusion was that Afghanistan is "transitioning to a democracy"; the reality is we were propping up an illusion & all evidence to the contrary ignored as inconvenient.
Endless corruption (Hamid Karzai w/his tailored robes, his disdain for us & his brother the bag man, etc.), the "green-on-blue" murders of US forces by their Afghani "allies" was tut-tutted with a shrug, at best.
To the Pashtun, for the most part (who constitute the majority of our "allies"), we are unclean swine-eating infidels, pure and simple. I really, really feel bad for the women of Afghanistan, but wishing things were different just don't make them so. I remember the troops of South Vietnam shucking their uniforms in the field, then disappearing into the night; now it's here we are again.
I can't argue w/Pres. Biden; tho I hate that we're leaving NOW, w/the women so defenseless & all but no; Biden is strong enough to take away the pipe, crutch or whatever metaphor you want; this was bound to end in tears sooner or later & if later there'd be an even higher price paid in American lives & treasure. Another thing;
Pakistan, allied w/the Taliban, made our hopes for an Afghani future impossible (if they ever WERE possible). Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan, recently said we screwed up there, but if he wants to blame someone, he should look into a damn mirror. Talk about a failed state; I bet the Madrassa boys come to take Pakistan next.
The real and horrible truth is that Pakistan and Karzai (former President of Afghanistan) INVENTED AND SUBSIDIZED the Taliban... think about that for a moment.
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@twistedcherrypop Spare a moment & a few tears in sympathy for the American taxpayer who paid a trillion bucks of their hard-earned money & watched it spent on the salaries of 80,000 Afghan-Potemkin troops, created from thin air to suck more paychecks paid for by Uncle Sugar, which money then sank without trace in the dark pit of warlord pockets... & in addition, taxpayers could also watch as $billion$ in US foreign aid went to Pakistan, only to find later that the Pakistanis took large swaths of that money, sending it on to their ISI (the Inter-Services Intelligence is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan) which then spent it on arms and ammo for their proxies, the Taliban, who then used it to kill our soldiers.
So we paid for the damn weapons & ammo that killed US & NATO soldiers.
What happened in Afghanistan? It's simple, sadly; there's no there there, & never was. The illusion was that Afghanistan is "transitioning to a democracy"; the reality is we were propping up an illusion & all evidence to the contrary ignored as inconvenient.
Endless corruption (Hamid Karzai w/his tailored robes, his disdain for us & his brother the bag man, etc.), the "green-on-blue" murders of US forces by their Afghani "allies" was tut-tutted with a shrug, at best.
To the Pashtun, for the most part (who constitute the majority of our "allies"), we are unclean swine-eating infidels, pure and simple. I really, really feel bad for the women of Afghanistan, but wishing things were different just don't make them so. I remember the troops of South Vietnam shucking their uniforms in the field, then disappearing into the night; now it's here we are again.
I can't argue w/Pres. Biden; tho I hate that we're leaving NOW, w/the women so defenseless & all but no; Biden is strong enough to take away the pipe, crutch or whatever metaphor you want; this was bound to end in tears sooner or later & if later there'd be an even higher price paid in American lives & treasure.
Another thing; Pakistan, allied w/the Taliban, made our hopes for an Afghani future impossible (if they ever WERE possible). Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan, recently said we screwed up there, but if he wants to blame someone, he should look into a damn mirror. Talk about a failed state; I bet the Madrassa boys come to take Pakistan next.
The real and horrible truth is that Pakistan and Karzai (former President of Afghanistan) INVENTED AND SUBSIDIZED the Taliban... think about that for a moment.
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