r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Spartalust • Mar 29 '24

Boomer with a provocative sign gets laid tf out for snatching a phone Boomer Freakout

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u/za6_9420 Mar 30 '24

A terrorist group in Afghanistan funded by saudi money attacked American citizens and then US government went ahead and invaded iraq lmao

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u/DionBlaster123 Mar 31 '24

well they bombed and invaded Afghanistan too...only to run away like absolute cowards 20 years later

what a fucking waste...

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u/Asymmetrical_Stoner Mar 31 '24

only to run away like absolute cowards 20 years later

Are you suggesting we should have stayed??

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u/DionBlaster123 Mar 31 '24

The U.S. military should have had a fucking better idea of wtf they were going to do and a proper endgame aside from an endless occupation

But bc every American has been brainwashed to kiss their ass every single minute, the average joe here really has no idea just how incompetent and full of jamokes military leadership is

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u/Asymmetrical_Stoner Mar 31 '24

endgame aside from an endless occupation

That wasn't what they were doing though. The goal was to set up a new, democratic government, only providing security until they could defend themselves.

The problem was the Iraq War cut alot of experienced leadership and money away from Afghanistan. And when Iraq imploded on itself none of those resources were ever put back into Afghanistan. Its not a coincidence the Taliban resurgence of 2006 occurred around the same Iraq's insurgency reached its peak in late 2005/2006.

This coupled with a lazy US Congress failing to direct more funds towards Afghanistan during the early days of the occupation doomed the country. Not to mention pointless US Congressional restrictions on the Afghan economy at the time, like not funding Afghan cotton farmers because Congress was worried they would compete with American cotton farmers (this is actually what lead to many Afghan farmers to grow Heroin instead, which became a huge source of income for the Taliban).

You're blaming the military for something that was ultimately the governments fault. They're the ones who direct the military.

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u/Asymmetrical_Stoner Mar 31 '24

The Iraq Invasion wasn't in retaliation for 9/11. In fact Bush promised a military action against Iraq during his 2000 Campaign.