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Re:France plots tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain cou... by kennysoona on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:12AM (#43410502)
This is such a silly argument. They held the place for 20 years uncontested.

Retreating voluntarily because of nothing to do with their opposition, sure as hell isn't losing.

Instead of going back and forth constantly with this semantic bullshit, can we just agree at the least the US didn't retreat because the taliban forced and pressured them to?

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Re:France plots tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain cou... by lostlogin on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:54PM (#43414450)
I think you’re right about that and the semantics of it and that’s exactly the problem. The US approached Afghanistan as a battlefield, and a purely military problem. It was irregular warfare and a political problem that ground the US down.

https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/learning-from-failure-...

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