Quote Originally Posted by dembethewarrior View Post
Picking holes in the way he's decided to articulate his point is pety.
I'm just interested in the point Graham has made and want to understand it. Nothing petty. Although most of his posts are wind ups!

He seems to be saying the USA had a right to invade Afghanistan after 9/11. I disagree, but that is an old argument. But he is saying the point of the invasion in 2001 was to remove (get) the Taliban? I thought it was to remove the Taliban from government in order to destroy Al Qaeda? They partly succeeded - although the biggest successes against Al Qaeda were in Pakistan! But after 20 years, the Taliban are back (they never went away), a corrupt puppet regime has collapsed, and 240,000 people are dead as a direct result of the war and occupation. I don't believe the USA and its allies had the legal or moral right to invade, and if they 'got' the Taliban they didn't stay got for long!