Exactly right.
“Yes, the US and the west should stop endless wars of imperial conquest. But it’s unconscionable to throw 38 million Afghans to feral wolves and squander hard-fought social and educational advances women and minorities have made over the last two decades.” independent.co.uk/independen…

Aug 15, 2021 · 2:02 PM UTC

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So what does that mean? Stay?
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I like you Marianne but this is exactly the wrong take
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Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians murdered by the US and the stooge regime in Kabul while stealing trillions. Wow, woke imperialism is based imperialism.
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You just lost all your prog credentials. Nice job.
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No. NOT 'exactly right'. Please read some common sense written by Caitlin Johnstone. If you don't get it at 1st, read it over until you do.
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I think if we stay another 20 years we might save the women there. I doubt anything happening to them is a direct cause of our intervention.
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These articles and Tweets always come out when talk of withdrawing troops and then they cave. A lot of it is propaganda. We should have left when we got Bin Laden. Time is overdue for us to get out and stay out.
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What happened in 1971?