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Edit avatar · 06:22 PM

Afghanistan has a lot of sad history to it going back decades — probably even centuries.

What I do know about it goes back to the Soviet invasion in the late 1970s. OBL, then a young man, was a rebel who fought against them and a group of these young belligerents formed a group.

They were already a concern as far back as the Reagan administration and continued to be through the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations.

There are plenty of online sources where this can be read about further.

I'm sure everyone knows — whether or not you were alive yet — about the September 11th terrorist attacks. Bush Jr. had been president for about seven months. It was almost immediately made know AQ and OBL were behind this series of attacks.

On September 18th 2001, GWB Jr. announced the War on Terror and picked out Afghanistan solely because it's where OBL started all those years ago during the Soviet invasion.

So, in twenty years, what has been accomplished exactly? Bush didn't succeed in gunning down OBL; that happened during the Obama administration in 2011.

Other than that? Not a whole hell lot. I am frustrated because this has been ongoing for my whole life, but didn't take note of it until after September 11th.

I am frustrated because GWB Jr. started out on something that Reagan and his father couldn't resolve, something that Clinton ignored; and he had a set goal and he failed.

Obama did a good by killing OBL but that's pretty much it.

Trump. Let's not even start. I think he only made matters worse.

Now Biden is taking the fall by the Republicans; but it was the Republicans' mistake to begin with. Regan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. and Trump. They failed too.

We've failed Afghanistan and its people.

Who are the Taliban and how did they take over Afghanistan so swiftly? — CNN News, August 16th 2021
Taliban take over Afghanistan: What we know and what's next. — AP News, August 17th 2021
Full transcript of President Biden's remarks on Afghanistan. — New York Times, August 16th 2021