The news from Afghanistan today is disheartening. As many of you know, I was stationed there in 2008-09. In the 20 years that we were there and we haven’t left yet, we trained them, we equipped them, and now it deeply saddens me to see their armed forces lay down their weapons and let the Taliban take over without a fight, without a whimper.
I mean, if they won’t even fight for themselves and their
own country, why should we?
While I do believe it it’s way past time that we have left,
I fear for the women and the young girls in that country. I fear for anyone who
attempts to stand against the Taliban once they are back in power. If they do
not capitulate, they will be treated harshly or killed.
And it saddens me more that we spent trillions of dollars,
countless lives injured—both on our side and the Afghans, and countless deaths
and more in the order of 3000+ of our troops died.
Was it all for nothing?
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