Yes, shelve the political point scoring. The Biden admin chose to embrace what Trump set in motion. The entire American political and military establishment, as well as the adjacent pundit class, owns this debacle. And it's ordinary Afghans paying the price. https://t.co/jUe6ygM7NP
沃海不久前写了一本书，《明日世界》【15】，这本书的主题是追踪了美国国家机器挂在嘴上的“被历史赋予对全人类负责的不可推卸的神圣使命感”的来源，他发现不是美国人所说的美国“迫不得已地被历史推到了台前”，而是美国少数精英权贵在二战尚未结束时给美国打造的独霸世界的蓝图，那就是通过军事霸权把全世界揽在自己的怀抱里，美国是有经济文化制度的优越性，很多场合其经济文化实力对全世界有压倒性的魅力，但军事霸权是这一计划里最关键，核心的组成部分，在上文【13】里，他将之称为“有了势力，就必须为之寻找目的”（Power in search of purpose），二战后，美国的产值和工业生产都几乎是全世界的一半，绝对是压倒性的地位，对于身怀绝技的天下第一高手，不能施展一番，岂不辜负了老天的期望？美国的这种霸主欲望，顺应了早期总统昆西·亚当斯的那句话，“有人有一种到处找怪物露一手的欲望”（in search of monsters to destroy），如果没有敌人，制造一个也要让它存在。
Unconscionable. The US military had an airbase in Bagram. Total disregard for human lives when not your own https://t.co/8ojsN5X9Sy
The good article with a lots of data should be published in China but here to mislead your readers.
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以前我对nation building 也是否定的。看看现在的伊拉克，以及猎杀苏莱曼尼伊拉克中立的立场，甚至通风报信告诉美军伊朗什么时候射导弹，射哪里，我的认知改变了。伊拉克的改变是成功的。把一个侵略，反美的石油国家，改造成温和，有点亲美的国家，挺好。
纵观中东过去50年，阿以战争，两伊战争（8年），科威特战争，国与国之间战争没停过。虽然美国入侵伊拉克是莫须有的理由，但此后中东再无国与国之间的大战，阿以建交，中东成了美固主导的和平的中东，避免了生灵涂炭，国际石油供应稳定，全世界受益。美国nation building 取得了伟大的胜利。
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至于美国军工企业需要捞钱，这是我家的事，没你什么事。这世上有你们这些流氓，怎么可以马放南山。
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官宣辛苦了，这么旁征博引。引用“Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan, Max Boot “这篇文章可惜在我看来刚好反驳了这篇文章和你的观点-撒军是失败。失败的指标是恐怖组织在叙利亚，阿富汗满血夏活。这篇文章是以前写的。请问叙利亚的恐怖组织有复活吗？
Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan, Max Boot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-us-cant-win-the-wars-in-afghanistan-and-syria--but-we-can-lose-them/2019/01/30/e440c54e-23ea-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html
Pakistan and the United States Have Betrayed the Afghan People
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/16/pakistan-united-states-afghanistan-taliban/
...much of U.S. investment did not stay in Afghanistan. Because of heavy reliance on a complex ecosystem of defense contractors, Washington banditry, and aid contractors, between 80 and 90 percent of outlays actually returned to the U.S. economy. Of the 10 to 20 percent of the contracts that remained in the country, the United States rarely cared about the efficacy of the initiative. Although corruption is rife in Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction repeatedly identifies bewildering corruption by US. firms and individuals working in Afghanistan.
