Afghanistan. We and most of our NATO allies brought all their high-tech weapons to bear and could not defeat a bunch of ignorant 14th century goatherders.
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Afghanistan
I had a conversation with a friend over Thanksgiving about AWs. His question was "Why are they protected arms?" He is not hostile to guns or even AWs. He likes them. I explained about the insurrectionary theory of the Second Amendment, which he understood, but he did not think they could possibly be useful against the full might of the U S. military.
Schrodinger's Firearm: Simultaneously a weapon of war, and not able to stand up to modern military
ReplyDeleteNonsense. The Taliban was thoroughly defeated. But because they had sanctuaries in Pakistan, and a network of covert sympathizers in Afghanistan, they could continue to cause trouble in the country. US casualties in the last few years of the war were less than accidental deaths and injuries in the armed forces.
ReplyDeleteYet we were never able to stabilize Afghanistan.
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