Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Afghanistan" video.

  1. Instead of "Afghanistan": "Germany". "Japan". "South Korea". An intelligent discussion of this topic will include comparisons between our experiences in these places. Also, we should revisit the entire discussion on nation-building, and the strategies we employed (and rejected) prior to nation-building: in particular, supporting "friendly" regimes, whatever their overall behavior... regimes such as Saddam Hussein, or the mujahedeen. This retreat from Kabul is certainly a disaster, and a preventable one. Whether the optimal time to prevent it was our decision to attempt an alternative strategy to supporting a friendly regime, or our decision to exit, or our "decision" to forgo competent military planning of this specific operation, is a discussion worth having. We need to have that discussion openly, so that voters and experts alike can contribute their thoughts both before, during, and after, as we come to a decision on what we believe is the best course for the future.
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