Economic costs of war

Re:Economic costs of war by jrsj on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:42PM (#28205572)

Allegedly the “government” of Afghanistan (its really just been a sham and a U.S. puppet state for the last 20 years) didn’t want this to happen because they wanted to avoid demoralizing the Afghan army which…subsequently refused to fight anyways. Or at least that’s how I understood some of what Biden said earlier today.

For all we know that was the idea of our own military or intelligence community & now we are conveniently placing the blame for our mistakes on a government that no longer exists

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Re:Economic costs of war by joe_the_user on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:31PM (#28205902)

This is a plausible argument.

But even more, no matter what group was making the decision, no one could have admitted, no matter how much they expected it, that the whole structure was going to rapidly disintegrate. Because the structure was their product - they produced and managed the thing.

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Re:Economic costs of war by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:56PM (#28205674)

Dunno about that. Establishment, such as it is in the form of various talking heads, appears to be somewhat angry. I am not sure it is all a show.

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Re:Economic costs of war by jrsj on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:08AM (#28217688)

Yeah I think the argument the administration made is a retcon and they made decisions based on bad intelligence that the government would hold up long enough to get everyone and everything out. This idea that their government made a bad suggestion and we listened is silly — they were essentially a puppet state so it’s on us either way.

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