America’s Longest War: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (2021)

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• BR

  @briant5685 · 2 years ago

  Took 20 years to replace a weaker taliban  with a stronger taliban

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• NT

  @NThabethe · 2 years ago

  Thousands of American and Afghan lives wasted for absolutely nothing. This is despicable

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• LI

  @lionbangash1730 · 2 years ago

  How can you defeat an enemy that looks into the barrel of your gun and sees paradise."Russian General in 1979"

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• GA

  @gamehengeful · 1 year ago

  Hearing George W. Bush criticize any other president about a war is like hearing a drug dealer call a drug addict morally compromised.

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• NI

  @NicholasOrlick · 2 years ago (edited)

  You can’t use an Army to rebuild an entire country at gun point. Because that’s not what an army is designed to do. It seems like a lot of generals don’t understand that.

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• JU

  @judah400yrs2 · 2 years ago (edited)

  A wise man once told me, “ The generals get the glory, the mother and fathers get the flag and the soldiers get the GRAVE “. That wise man was my father a Korean War Veteran, he begged me not to join the military. I join the U.S. Navy, within two weeks “ Boots on ground “ in Iraq, we had our first unit “KIA” after the memorial service, l laid on my bunk and thought of my Father Worlds: “ The generals get the glory, the mother and fathers get the flag and the soldiers get the GRAVE”………..

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• VI

  @vikramgupta2326 · 2 years ago

  The repeated flaw in American foreign policy after WW 2 is not realizing it is virtually impossible to avoid being seen as a foreign occupying power no matter how well intentioned your mission.

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• US

  @USSitroom-o6o · 1 year ago (edited)

  “We didn’t understand the problem” that sums it up perfectly. Chilling.

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• DR

  @druidia9 · 2 years ago

  The parallels with Vietnam are stunning. Did the US learn anything from that war?

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• JO

  @johnmustol8828 · 2 years ago

  As Craig Whitlock says, "The United States never really understood Afghanistan and what made it tick." We didn't know its people, history, culture, religion, day-to-day life, politics, sociology, languages, ecology and never bothered to learn. As General Lute admitted, "We didn't have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking." In the heat of fear, anger, and vengeance, we rushed in and then fumbled around for 20 years. It was a massive failure of leadership - like Vietnam. Will we ever learn from these experiences?

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• DT

  @dtmaxx6557 · 2 years ago

  Brilliant documentary, very unsettling to watch.

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• BR

  @brandonreimers7926 · 10 days ago

  Excellent reporting and summary, thank you

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