>Historians of the now seventeen-year old U.S. war in Afghanistan will take note of this past week when the newly-appointed American general in charge of US and NATO operations in the country made a bombshell, historic admission. He conceded that the United States cannot win in Afghanistan.
This was exactly what Bin Laden had in mind as his final goal:
From 2004:
>"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.
>"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.
Is that bin laden? Looks more like a young saddam.
Evan Hernandez
everyone who is not a partisan shill has known this for 17 years.
Adam Nguyen
>general in 2018 says what preteen me said at the beginning of all this bullshit I'm not sure if I should feel happy that they finally realized it, depressed that it took so long, or angry that they'll just keep fucking about in that part of the world despite realizing this.
That isn't defeat. The Afghans didn't conquer anything.
Noah Wright
ok, so we can finally pull out and leave them to be primitives for all time. I don't mind that at all
Connor Harris
Defeat and failure are not the same thing. We didn't lose to Afghans. It wad an insurgent war. It was far worse for them than us. It was just a failure in it's mission.
Jace Rodriguez
B..but Obama ended all the wars.. isn't that what they gave him a Nobel peace prize for!?
