Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
I'm in the 'it was all for nothing' camp.

Lives lost, lives ruined. Twenty years on and Taliban back in charge; we'll likely see terrorist cells re-emerge after being trained there by the soldiers trained by us and the good old US of A.

I blame the SNP.
I think it’s a bit doom and gloom to say it was all for nothing.

I think the calamity of the withdrawal is a disgrace but the withdrawal needed to happen, I find it incredible they had no idea the 300,000 trained Afghans were just going to give up without even trying to hold the country. The Taliban progression of the last week or two has been pretty much bloodless.

It remains to be seen if they’ll be true to their word but if they are that’s massive progress on the past.