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About 71,000 dead civilians who might disagree with this take.
The war was a fucking folly from the get go, and it was always destined to end pretty much like this. The fact that everyone’s apparent solution to the issue is “perpetual occupation isn’t that bad, I guess. 20 more years!” is as revealing as anything else.
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The 20 years of being not under Taliban control was something. A non-recurrent benefit but still a benefit.