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What do they expect? Permanent US occupation? If they really expect that, then they're going to need to make themselves a US territory or deal with themselves.
Did they expect the USA to invade in the first place?
Yeah, that's America's whole thing
The organization ended up fracturing, and one of those factions went on to become a terrorist organization. Not all of them though.
Uh, wrong.
We only invade brown people and commies.
Germany was brown commies?
Well, their uniforms were brown /j
It's not really an invasion when they start it.
It's karma.
Wall Street funded them bro.
I think they just expected empathy and interest in them as a people.
Ok, they have our empathy and interest. How does that translate into meaningful physical action?
It translated pretty easily for 2 decades. Then an orange chimp decided he didn't care just like he doesn't care about anything his country commits to and left. Then Biden just pushed it through while the Afghanistan government was unready and countless American sympathisers and supporters still had not been extracted just because he also doesn't give a sh*t about promises his country makes. America leaving was inevitable. The taliban retaking was almost handed to them by how America decided to withdraw.
There was no way the ANA would have held on for long after the US left, held on for a little longer, maybe.
There was no way the Taliban wasn't going to eventually win in some capacity.
Do they? You're more focused on trying to have a gotcha on the internet than displaying any empathy or interest in them.
Thoughts and prayers won't make the Taliban go away lol
Is that your idea of what empathy or interest looks like?
What is yours? How would you have supported them without actually helping the Taliban?
Please explain to me how sending thoughts and prayers is your idea of having empathy or interest in something first.
I never said that. But it's clearly not yours, so please elaborate on what yours is.
And yet you came in defending it for some reason. Now you refuse to actually elaborate on why you decided to speak up at all and want me to make up something new just so you can have something to argue about.
All I said is that asking what a repressed and destroyed community expects is probably some basic humanity, and not a bunch of internet commenters being condescending assholes. I also said "thoughts and prayers" isn't empathy or interest, and if I have to explain that, then I may as well be asked to explain to a Republican why "thoughts and prayers" is a shit response to a school shooting.
Ah, so you don't have any actual arguments, you just want to argue.
Of course I never had an argument, I just made a simple statement. Not every simple sentence on the internet is an argument.
As for who came to argue, it was you responded to me in a way where you took issue with something that wasn't said and have displayed quite a lot of upset that I refuse to engage in the argument you want to have.
What do you think it should look like? I'm not pleased with the situation but I don't know what we could do differently.
It definitely doesn't look like thoughts and prayers, a phrase which is often used by people who show the opposite of empathy or interest.