While I’m happy to see elements of the mainstream American media starting to criticize our ongoing occupation of Afghanistan, it’s telling that this same criticism wasn’t levied against Obama during his eight years of overseeing yet another American military fiasco/defeat.

American troops have no real purpose in Afghanistan. They can’t possibly defeat the mostly-Pashtun Taliban and the soldiers we’re supposedly training to fight the Taliban on our behalf don’t really want to fight the Taliban.

Our only logical course of action at this point is to withdraw completely, squash the stupid idea of sending bloodthirsty thugs from Erik Prince’s mercenary group to terrorize innocent people there, and pay full reparations to the people of Afghanistan for the 16 years of destruction and terror we brought to them.

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