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minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·12 hours agoThe 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.
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoAfghanistan was a NATO Article 5 mission. We didn’t stick around a minute after the NATO mission was over.
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoAnd nobody especially objected to it. Not even much from outside of NATO, excepting Afghanistan itself.
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.
Afghanistan was a NATO Article 5 mission. We didn’t stick around a minute after the NATO mission was over.
And nobody especially objected to it. Not even much from outside of NATO, excepting Afghanistan itself.