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Matt Taibbi: We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/we-failed-afghanistan-not-the-other

by runawaybottle • 5 years ago

17 10 5 years ago

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baybal24• 5 years ago

It's spot on.

You cannot "reconstruct" a country if you purposefully put people in power who cannot, and will not do that.

Take a look on South Korea after WW2.

US pushed through Lee Syngman because they sought an "easy to work with" candidate, which came out to be a very weak personality who quickly established a dictatorship, and rotted the system in, and out for self preservation.

US made everything to make the New Korea to be unable to defend itself, and be dependent on US for everything. The penance came just 5 years later.

smt883• 5 years ago

I'd argue you can't reconstruct a country at all.

runawaybottle• 5 years ago

We did it after ww2 with West Germany and Japan.

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