• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The world spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to help you. It didn’t take.

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      11 months ago

      Yep didn’t we remove their horrid government, hold elections, try to support a more liberal government through multiple decades in the longest war the US has ever engaged in?

      And wasn’t that a massive overreach of our role in the first place?

      I feel for these women but this headline can go get fucked.

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        Oh, don’t act like that’s all the last 20 years was.

        We spent two decades trying to train up their army with direct hands on mentorship and equipment, they rolled over and surrendered immediately.

        You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make the people overthrow their religious fascist government.

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        The United States Department of Defense lists 2,462 servicemembers as having died in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Of these, 1,926 were due to hostile action and 536 non-hostile.

        United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

        On behalf of all the veterans of this conflict, fuck you.