And this is also great observation: "The United States is slinking out of Afghanistan after 20 years. The usual suspects are decrying this as, more or less, appeasement towards the Taliban, not seeming to understand that the Taliban live there, and we don’t, and thus they will always ultimately have more say than we do and cannot be wa…
And this is also great observation: "The United States is slinking out of Afghanistan after 20 years. The usual suspects are decrying this as, more or less, appeasement towards the Taliban, not seeming to understand that the Taliban live there, and we don’t, and thus they will always ultimately have more say than we do and cannot be waited out."
Remember, John McCain always said we should've stayed in Vietnam even longer, as long as it took. Well, we'd still be there now if we took his advice. Do I think Vietnam is better off because we didn't stay 40 years? Yes.
Will and talking tough don't matter that much, especially not in the 21st century when some of America's power has waned. So what you get from intellectuals and politicians is this theater of tough talk that will never go anywhere because it can't. International corporations have more binding power than any individual government as far as sanctions are concerned. China is the entity that is too big to fail of capitalism and that's so hilarious on many fronts.
I think Afghanistan is actually a great comparison to Vietnam. At the same time we understand that US military might was never going to be enough to conquer the North we should also recognize that US air power could have kept the S. Vietnamese viable indefinitely. The cost of not doing so? Massacres, reeducation camps, refugees forced to flee the country, and the attendant diminishment of US soft power abroad.
And this is also great observation: "The United States is slinking out of Afghanistan after 20 years. The usual suspects are decrying this as, more or less, appeasement towards the Taliban, not seeming to understand that the Taliban live there, and we don’t, and thus they will always ultimately have more say than we do and cannot be waited out."
Remember, John McCain always said we should've stayed in Vietnam even longer, as long as it took. Well, we'd still be there now if we took his advice. Do I think Vietnam is better off because we didn't stay 40 years? Yes.
Will and talking tough don't matter that much, especially not in the 21st century when some of America's power has waned. So what you get from intellectuals and politicians is this theater of tough talk that will never go anywhere because it can't. International corporations have more binding power than any individual government as far as sanctions are concerned. China is the entity that is too big to fail of capitalism and that's so hilarious on many fronts.
I think Afghanistan is actually a great comparison to Vietnam. At the same time we understand that US military might was never going to be enough to conquer the North we should also recognize that US air power could have kept the S. Vietnamese viable indefinitely. The cost of not doing so? Massacres, reeducation camps, refugees forced to flee the country, and the attendant diminishment of US soft power abroad.