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Originally Posted by ThomasC

It’s really not as simple as that. If it was we wouldn’t have gone to war in the first place.

I would agree that us having put in all the help we have that the Afghan army can deal with it themselves.

The talibans decisions affect ours. We couldn’t stand back and do nothing after 9/11. Where do you draw the line and say enough is enough?

You realise, I assume, that 9/11 was far from the start of western involvement in Afghanistan? The Afghan war goes back as far as the late 1970’s, was heavily infused with US/Soviet union tensions throughout the 80’s, and 9/11 itself was a direct consequence of US involvement in the Middle East.

I’m not really taking a moral stance here, the politics is complicated but to frame it as the west saying “enough is enough” and only getting involved post-911 is just not the case, the west was 20+ years balls deep in the situation by 2001.