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    Our Freedom, a Few Trillion Dollars, Lost Lives, 20 Years Later We Leave Afghanistan

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan's south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that brought them closer to Kabul just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war.

    In the last 24 hours, the country's second- and third-largest cities — Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south — have fallen to the insurgents, as has the capital of the southern province of Helmand, where American, British and NATO forces fought some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict.

    The blitz through the Taliban's southern heartland means the insurgents now hold half of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals and control more than two-thirds of the country. The Western-backed government in the capital, Kabul, still holds a smattering of provinces in the center and east, as well as the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

    While Kabul is not directly under threat yet, the resurgent Taliban were battling government forces in Logar province, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the capital. The U.S. military has estimated that Kabul could come under insurgent pressure within 30 days and that the Taliban could overrun the rest of the country within a few months. They have already taken over much of the north and west of the country.
    Taliban sweep across Afghanistan'''s south, take 4 more cities

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    It's sad to see this, but I feel it was inevitable. The speed with which the takeover has occurred shows clearly that we were fooling ourselves by believing that we could create something like a liberal democracy in that nation. I wish we could have done so, but wishing something to be possible doesn't make it actually doable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    It's sad to see this, but I feel it was inevitable. The speed with which the takeover has occurred shows clearly that we were fooling ourselves by believing that we could create something like a liberal democracy in that nation. I wish we could have done so, but wishing something to be possible doesn't make it actually doable.
    There was never any illusions by the people that got us in, they were only interested in the opium trade and oil pipelines. They only told/sold the American people the illusion. It was a CIA war, drugs and money were the drivers.

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    While we watch in disgust and horror at what is supposed to be Biden's decision to abandon posts in Afghanistan, keep in mind this is an incremental step toward ultimate globalism, culminating in the Antichrist rule.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    While we watch in disgust and horror at what is supposed to be Biden's decision to abandon posts in Afghanistan, keep in mind this is an incremental step toward ultimate globalism, culminating in the Antichrist rule.
    Yep, it looks like China has Afghanistan under its wing.

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