As someone that worked to get someone asylum from Afghanistan, there are many many many citizens in Afghanistan that long to have the US back with a significant presence. It's not easy sleeping when a car bomb just went off outside your house and it was targeted at you for not being a religious hardliner.. The US isn't always about keeping its own citizens safe, it often steps in when there is genocide, etc.
> there are many many many citizens in Afghanistan that long to have the US back with a significant presence
Which would be true of any military force that invaded, slaughtered hundreds of thousands and then pulled out leaving a power vacuum.
The US didn't go into Afghanistan to save people from car bombs.
If the US has somehow done you a favour as a result of its wars of aggression, it's a complete coincidence.
> It's not easy sleeping when a car bomb just went off outside your house and it was targeted at you for not being a religious hardliner..
Sounds like Iraq and the rise of ISIS doesn't it? Another US war of aggression that left hundreds of thousands dead along with a power vacuum filled by religious extremists.
The US went in because it facilitated terrorism and led to the direct death of 3000 Americans. The rise of religious extremism was well before the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Am I for US intervention as "world police," absolutely not. I don't agree with our presence in Iraq, but there is certainly a point where US presence is warranted and needed. Anything else is just a naive world view. I was like that when I was in my early 20s, then I grew up and realized how complex the world really is.
None of this address the original point I was making, in that US wars in the last few decades have not made Americans safer. Or anyone else for that matter.
The fact that people might now be clamouring to have them back after they left a power vaccuum to act as blocker on warlords and religious zealots fighting for control doesn't change that fact.
> nything else is just a naive world view. I was like that when I was in my early 20s, then I grew up and realized how complex the world really is.
Implying that I'm immature because I disagree with you doesn't make you look as good as you think.
> None of this address the original point I was making, in that US wars in the last few decades have not made Americans safer. Or anyone else for that matter.
Can you just recite the number of American civilians killed due to terrorist attacks after 9/11 and compare it with how many terrorists have seriously threatened and even died to kill Americans. If someone is ready to die to kill less than one person on average, it needs to be taken seriously.
While, yes there are things which every military mishandles from time to time, certainly US, you are calling out all activities, for which I hate to say it but you are too naive.
