Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "The Fallout From US Afghanistan Withdrawal | A Marine’s Perspective | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer" video.

I'm not a military man, but I think the Americans and their allies spent 20 years doing everything they could to bring the Afghanistan people and the country and the culture up-to-speed so that it could move along on its own. The criticism is ferocious and probably is right in a lot of way that the US and its allies and NATO soldiers and UN troops should have stayed longer. But my perspective is this: if after 20 years you do everything in your power to help a nation get on its feet and the day you leave a group of ragtag terrorists hiding in the mountains can come out of nowhere and emerge from their hideouts and take over the entire country, then you have to come to the same conclusion as I have and I'm sure a lot of other people and that is that whoever the Afghanistan people are, they lack any desire to be their own masters. Think of it. Someone helps you out for two decades and you've got a job and a house and the kids are alright and suddenly the person helping you out moves on and the next day you're homeless and living in a tent on main street in some Southwestern town in the US? What does it say? It says you will never be able to stand up on your own, never be able to live independently and alone. Americans and their allies should not feel guilty. Granted. It is pathetic to see the Taliban take over and show them to be from another period of history in their beliefs. They have carried out an assault on women that is off-the-charts. But I have only one question. Why on earth aren't the Afghanistan men fighting to make sure their women are treated fairly? Why aren't the Afghanistan men outraged to see their women treated like cattle? Twenty years were spent trying to get a nation on its feet. America: you did your best to help out and on top of that many of your finest soldiers lost their lives and all the money that was invested into getting people to see the light brought this result. It's not your fault or your allies' fault. The lessons you tried to teach the Afghanistan people will manifest one day when the Afghanistan people realize that they have been invaded by a sort of cult with nothing else but ancient religious doctrine that makes no sense anymore. The Taliban does not have the best interests of the Afghanistan people in mind; they only want their way of life.
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@louisfriend9323 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I am not an American citizen but I see America as the light of the free world in spite of all that can be said against her and I try to keep an open mind and listen to both sides of the story. None of the superpowers have clean records and never will have. The only thing important now on the world stage is for all of us to help the Ukraine regain their territory and make sure Taiwan stays an independent country. The Ukraine must become a mimi-superpower for it to survive and that means having weapons so powerful and deadly no one would dare invade it again. What we know is that we live in a world that is far from being a safe place and where WW III has probably already begun. The only way we'll have peace on earth is when there is a world government in place. I am an artist and Rembrandt is the artist I admire the most.
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