Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
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.
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.
The elite? No, the average dipshit American. I'm not sure if you're old enough to remember what the US was like the days and weeks after 9/11, but the majority of people lost their minds. Even my dad, hardened Vietnam vet who hated the government and told me explicitly never to join up, turned into a flag waver and pro invasion immediately after 9/11 - not invading Saudi Arabian though, just Afghanistan then Iraq.
I'm glad I never joined, because it would have been a waste of life. I can't help but think of the poor saps that joined up after 9/11. I give the folks who we're in beforehand a pass, most of them were too stupid to understand what the US government does, but they got a firsthand education.