As pointed out earlier in the chain:
Occupation ≠ Colonisation
See,I live in an area of Australia that has a large proportion of Afghani refugees; these people are my friends, neighbours and colleagues. Our children go to the same schools, play the same sports, and spend their free time together. We regularly catch up on weekends for birthday parties and barbecues.
These people did not arrive here because the US was occupying Afghanistan - they all fled just as the US pulled out. All they want is to live in a country where their sisters, wives and daughters were free to express themselves, for everyone to be free from persecution by religious zealots, and a chance of freedom to experience the sort of life their grandparents had up until the USSR invaded in 1979.
The US had already let down their parents generation once before, abandoning those „gallant people of Afghanistan” following the fall of the Soviet Union, by failing to follow through with their own Marshall Plan style reconstruction.
So when it comes to the US militarily occupying that same nation just some ~12 years later - yes, I think that seeing through the reconstruction of said nation to its pre-1979 state is the least the US should be responsible for. That the US quit and failed in this task, should be a black mark against the soul of the nation.
no sorry, my bad. You wanted to colonize afghanistan. I was just a few hundred miles off
As pointed out earlier in the chain: Occupation ≠ Colonisation
See,I live in an area of Australia that has a large proportion of Afghani refugees; these people are my friends, neighbours and colleagues. Our children go to the same schools, play the same sports, and spend their free time together. We regularly catch up on weekends for birthday parties and barbecues.
These people did not arrive here because the US was occupying Afghanistan - they all fled just as the US pulled out. All they want is to live in a country where their sisters, wives and daughters were free to express themselves, for everyone to be free from persecution by religious zealots, and a chance of freedom to experience the sort of life their grandparents had up until the USSR invaded in 1979.
The US had already let down their parents generation once before, abandoning those „gallant people of Afghanistan” following the fall of the Soviet Union, by failing to follow through with their own Marshall Plan style reconstruction.
So when it comes to the US militarily occupying that same nation just some ~12 years later - yes, I think that seeing through the reconstruction of said nation to its pre-1979 state is the least the US should be responsible for. That the US quit and failed in this task, should be a black mark against the soul of the nation.
Did that occur to you that the people who fled with the occupiers might not be a representative set of the population?
Every decolonisation had their set of traitors fleeing.