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For starters I would say that Afghanistan certainly lost. Taliban might have won but certainly not Afghanistan.

> Americans would like to advertise their loss

I couldn’t care less about that. Fact is that the defeat was primarily and almost entirely political, not a military one.

> should be treated as, the biggest failure of the American

Trump: Hold my diet coke



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