US and Taliban signs deal for an American withdrawal
 

US and Taliban have signed a deal aiming at ending their 18 year old conflict.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51689443

Headline should read : US and Taliban sign deal for an American withdrawal.
Asking the authority to make the correction.

Some voices especially in Britain have been saying for a long time that the campaign was futile. The Brits were once responsible for Helmand province.

Time will only tell if this will another April 30th 1975 moment in U.S. history.

As usual, T'rump screwed the pooch on this attempt to find peace in Afghanistan. Oh well, everything Vlad's puppet touches dies.

Bah! This is merely Donny casting about for a "win" before the election. There's no there there. You're gullible enough to believe there is, lol.

He'll call it a "win", they call it "victory!".
Who will the rational world observers believe?

O well what a mess we have left behind.....we should of handled this differently.
You would think we would of learned something in the twenty years over there. Not just spent money and life's.


A sad day for Afghanistan.

In the end we trained and equipped a army, to see it just melt away, morph into a Taliban one.


The world gave Afghanistan twenty years to get their act together. This was a time for them to stand on their own. Could we of handled it better, YES! We dropped the ball at the end and ran away!

Armies must have basic, instinctive loyalty to their leaders. The Afghan recruits always knew their leaders were corrupt Anerican puppets. Nothing could overcome that, and you had a force totally unwilling to fight and die.

The US has failed once again to learn from our own recent history...

I recommend that you fellows (re)read A Bright and Shining Lie which lays out in detail our failures in Vietnam which are not at all unlike our failures in Afghanistan.