@FistedFoucault
If we invade a place for 20 years and it returns to how it was before we got there a week after we left then I’m okay with saying we lost.
@FistedFoucault
You’re completely ignoring the efforts to democratize/westernize the country to make it useful in the future. All the provincial reconstruction teams, reconciliation councils, etc were in support of making Afghanistan useful in the region. That failed.
@MysteryGrove
My grandfather kept a journal of all his missions over Europe and he felt guilty about bombing Dresden after the Germans spent his entire flying career trying to kill him
@revenant_MMXX
They’re a non-entity on rw discourse, add nothing to the culture. See no reason why anyone would be drawn to them. Functionally they exist only as a boogeyman for mainstream leftists, they’re not doing the work of normalizing nationalism that real people do
@ricksapp
If the union needed flagrant violations of the Constitution to maintain along with the blood of hundreds of thousands, maybe it should have been allowed to fail
@Neoavatara
@guypbenson
The only thing in the world that kid is going to want is its mother. He’s being born into suffering for the sake of their social media. This is awful