• Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    lmao, no it doesn’t. the US didn’t go to Afghanistan to eradicate opium. the US didn’t give a shit about it at all, lmao.

    do tankies so blindly hate the US that they’ll give the Taliban a bj just to try to make the US look bad? wow…

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      11 months ago

      The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War is a summary of the Washington Post’s reporting on Afghanistan, specifically on the US government’s own internal assessments from all levels of the military and political administration. In it, you’ll find this quote:

      Of all the failures in Afghanistan, the war on opium ranked among the most feckless. During two decades, the United States spent more than $9 billion on a dizzying array of programs to deter Afghanistan from supplying the world with heroin. None of the measures worked. In many cases, they made things worse.

      The US doesn’t need “tankies” or anyone else to make themselves look bad as far as the Afghan drug trade goes.

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        11 months ago

        lmao, so? we get it. you hate the US. what’s your point? just to come here and whine about it?

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          11 months ago

          Ha you were conclusively proven wrong and didn’t even blink. A brain so smooth no facts can get stuck on it.

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          Post another 🤓 “I was on the debate team” graphic, that’s how discussions work

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            11 months ago

            Ha you were conclusively proven wrong and didn’t even blink

            oh, you mean here?

            the US didn’t give a shit about it at all

            ya got me there. they did care. still doesn’t prove that it’s why the US was there, and, in fact, several of the linked sources directly state to the contrary against claims that it was.

            too bad it’s meaningless and - like always - you’re wrong. lmao

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              11 months ago

              Lol so you initially ignore being wrong, then acknowledge you were wrong somewhere else, then say “well that was meaningless” when you go back to claim you were adult enough to say you missed on that one? …What?

              Go back to reddit if you’re going to be a debatelord

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      11 months ago

      We also didn’t threaten to kill the farmers for growing it. No shit the Taliban was successful. Comply or die. They’re the ones who were profiting from it anyway. Now that they’re in charge again, religion trumps financial needs.