Ah - the people who collaborated with a hostile occupier who kept their country under occupation to suck their natural resources and control the poppy fields, have their lives upset when their actual people gain the control back from the hostile occupier. And the hostile occupier who propped up these local new bourgeois just backstabs and abandons them when it finds a better deal.

It is indeed bad for the people who want to live modern, normal lives compared to being under a religious theocracy, but this is the result of 20 years of US occupation.

No, we are not going to pay the price. Those people will pay, for having trusted US, a known backstabber in the world of foreign policy.

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Also, what a glaring, amazing, outrageous call for actual imperialism. "Troops on the ground". Yeah, why dont you sign up and go there, Umair? Put your wallet where your mouth is.