One of the best books on the subject is this.

http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Crossroad-Mark-Donaldson/9781743519103?utm_source=googleps&utm_medium=ps&utm_campaign=AU&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7qn1BRDqARIsAKMbHDaJtd2gPMgFO1S2hl5ATRtaWLh6xw68F0fyMogJKldPcZK2WHLIc-caAtUFEALw_wcB

Dan

212,000 is not such a shocking number if you think back 100 years when there were far fewer people in the world. The same applies to the losses in modern skirmishes compared with those in the Great War.

But why we need to fixate on America when we are not doing all that well with our own problems will always be a mystery to me.

This author hates Trump and rambles on with all this nonsense. No wonder our scores in world wide education are low and getting lower all our learning institutions are hopeless and full of idiots. Lets start the great saving we are going to have to have with the education sector.

Onya ttbn,

Oh, here we go. Another left wing journo adds a few red stars to his fashionable hatred of the USA, by submitting a completely biased analysis of the war in Afghanistan, comparing it to Vietnam.

The reasons for the war in Afghanistan did not come within a hundred miles of the reasons for the war in Afghanistan. Just like at Pearl Harbour, the USA was attacked. This time by a private army of Islamic religious nutcases who wanted a war that they thought they could win. That the USA was attacked is recognised internationally in that it was an international allied force which responded to the call to arms. Even wimpy Canada sent combat troops, and even more astounding, so did neutral Sweden. So portraying this as some kind of "American" war is complete and utter BS. It was NATO, and even included our former enemies in the WARSAW PACT.

As for those "Afghans" killed in Afghanistan, most of them were the self same religious nutters hell bent upon turning the country back to the 6th century. Although, being extremely Islamic, it never progressed much passed the 6th century anyway. As for any innocent civilians killed, did it ever occur to Brenden O'Connor's vestigial brain that he should be blaming those Islamic religious nutters for those deaths, not the USA? 100,000 French civilians died in the allied air and ground campaigns to throw the Germans out of France. It's a good thing Brendan was not around in 1945 or he would be blaming the US and Britain for those deaths, instead of Adolph Hitler.

The Afghan war has been a bloody good war. For almost twenty years allied soldiers from around the world have used Afghanistan as a fantastic training ground where they got to slaughter like civilised men, tens of thousands of the worst religious nutters and terrorists in the world. And if there is one thing that professional soldiers really like, it is a nice little war where they can test their skills and weapons on a contemptible enemy that is really worth killing.

Unless we're prepared to stay the course and impose our standards on a primitive and sub-human culture still locked in the 18th century!

Then apart from nuking it? And making a point that not even the most violent terrorist could ignore, i.e, we can do much more to them than they to us? As we did to end the war in the pacific and save thousands of young allied soldiers' lives!

Then we should have just butted out!

As it is, a premature withdrawal will have made the sacrificed lives and treasure both worthless and pointless!

Stay in and finish the job using whatever it takes! Or leave and leave the Taliban a message they cannot ignore! As tactical weapons delivered by drones an along the mountain roads they use, between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Preferably as they make the annual transfer to continue to impose their will on the resident population!

And keep attacking and burning the poppy crops that is their main source of funding!

One needs to understand, we need to fight fire with fire and we can choose to not lift a helping hand with their fight against covid-19. Be they Pakistan Taliban or on the other side of a common border. Keep up the hunt and kill program against the head!

To kill a highly dangerous snake, one needs to cut off the head. And where the venomous fangs/lethal danger is located.

And resolve to keep doing that for the next 100 years if that what it takes!

Send in a very large task force to offer once only, safe passage to refuge, to any female that wants to end her sexual slavery to these insane, insatiable monsters! And could be done with a large enough force with aerial support!? And with good forward planning, and advisory dropped leaflets, completed in weeks!

Then withdraw all military and financial aid support! Thes folks decided to declare war and need to reap all the deserved consequences!
Alan B.

Guess you have been there Alan?