![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Afghanistan - More Thoughts
Aug. 23rd, 2021 11:45 amMore thoughts about Afghanistan.
1) Is our evacuation really a disaster? As noted here, we've pulled 40,000 people out of Afghanistan for zero losses.
2) Also noted here, the people we put in charge of the former Afghan government seem to be calmly negotiating with the Taliban.
3) From this post by an American who has been living in Afghanistan for over a decade and speaks Pashtu, I (re)learn that:
a) The Afghan government has been corrupt for decades and the US has enabled that corruption.
b) Our nominal ally Pakistan probably created the Taliban and are apparently providing key support (read "money, training and people") for the resurgent organization.
c) Hamid Karzai, the man the US put in charge of the country after we took it, is probably playing a key role in enabling the current Taliban takeover.
d) Self-delusion, mostly by US civilian leadership of both parties for decades, was a major factor in the rapid collapse.
1) Is our evacuation really a disaster? As noted here, we've pulled 40,000 people out of Afghanistan for zero losses.
2) Also noted here, the people we put in charge of the former Afghan government seem to be calmly negotiating with the Taliban.
3) From this post by an American who has been living in Afghanistan for over a decade and speaks Pashtu, I (re)learn that:
a) The Afghan government has been corrupt for decades and the US has enabled that corruption.
b) Our nominal ally Pakistan probably created the Taliban and are apparently providing key support (read "money, training and people") for the resurgent organization.
c) Hamid Karzai, the man the US put in charge of the country after we took it, is probably playing a key role in enabling the current Taliban takeover.
d) Self-delusion, mostly by US civilian leadership of both parties for decades, was a major factor in the rapid collapse.
