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Jfc, the comments here are disgusting.
As if this is the first time an imperial superpower has intervened so heavily in a country and then backed the fuck up once there was no profit left to be made and left the locals to go fuck themselves.
And yet fuckers whose only knowledge of the situation over there comes from their biased racist google search abilities, and who not only would, without a shadow of a doubt, run and hide and piss themsleves if they ever encountered any situation a tenth as threatening as Afghan people have had to put up with, but probably end up joining the oppressive force because that's what people with tiny fragile egos tend to do - seek ways to abuse others, get to sit here and judge those poor people who are nothing but pawns in a war for profit for "not helping themselves"?!
The fucking audacity of you fuckers is beyond belief.
I'd say go read some fucking history and educate yourselves about the hundreds of examples of how imperial and colonial powers have ravaged and then abandoned people all across the globe, but I honestly don't think it'd help people with their heads so far up their own asses that they actually think their ignorant selves are somehow qualified to pass judgment on these people's lives.
That's clearly a you problem, try removing your head from your ass, that might help
Lmao I bet you think we invaded Iraq to hunt down al-Qaeda too. The billions we poured into defense contractors in Afghanistan just magically went missing right?
If you don't want to get labeled as a fragile tool then maybe don't lash out and attack an Afghans' mild criticism of the US. The US literally invaded and occupied Afghanistan for 20 years yet you all are trying your damnedest to pretend the situation there is someone else's fault all while blaming the victim.
That's incredibly false
From way before 9-11
Before the Invasion
After the invasion.
This has been known for quite some time. Propaganda really is a hell of a drug.
Iraq started to protect the oil fields of the Persian Gulf. Afterwards we stayed to keep it from going into chaos and keep Iran from filling the void.