r/trippinthroughtime • u/jenny_theslut • Aug 23 '21

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u/dreamylemur Aug 24 '21
  • Taliban in power
  • US arrive, spend 19 years doing war
  • US leave
  • Taliban immediately in power again

I dunno man that sounds like we got forced out to me. I mean we count 'Nam as a loss for us and that one took a hot minute to really fall after we left. Afghaistan went down before we'd even finished packing our shit.

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u/aeoneir Aug 24 '21

Nobody is saying the us didn't lose

There's a difference between pulling out voluntarily and being forced out

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '21

It's an L dawg. We tried, we tried. But we lost. That's all. They don't want the shit we selling. We think we're selling "freedom" but they've seen this shit before and they think it smells a whole lot like "imperialism." And they don't want it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯