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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (480880)10/6/2021 3:37:12 PM
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The generals wanted to leave 2,500 troops in Afghanistan to keep the Taliban under control.

Three primary problems will arise out of our leaving:

1) Will be the terrorization of 38 million people, especially women, and pervasive starvation, including of a million children starving to death this winter according to the UN.

2) We no longer have the intelligence system we did to prevent terrorism and the generals say it will be on the rise.

3) They will be the drug kings of the world, and the primary exporter of opium in the world.

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Everyone agrees that the Taliban is horrible. As are Jihadis terrorizing African nations all these years.

The question is what the modern open imperfect democracies of the world should do about it.

What method of foreign interference has the most positive outcome? Military occupation and enforcing police states to delay civil wars do not seem to work out either.

I doubt anyone here isn't heartbroken for the state of human rights in Asia and Africa, right now the focus is understandably on Afghanistan.

I remain open minded for specific ideas and the metrics of their success.

“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining."
--Teddy Roosevelt
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