• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    The rest of the world were willing participants in Afghanistan. The US didn’t have to do anything to “force” them.

    Iraq and Afghanistan are interlinked stories, but the way they played out with world support was very, very different.

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      10 hours ago

      Afghanistan was a NATO Article 5 mission. We didn’t stick around a minute after the NATO mission was over.

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        10 hours ago

        And nobody especially objected to it. Not even much from outside of NATO, excepting Afghanistan itself.