![]() troops who never knew the fear of forced hoodings with a burka or the devastating exclusion from school. Enough time has passed for girls to have been born after the fall of the Taliban to U.S. The images of bodies falling off planes as they leave the country are emblematic of the horrors that await local citizens when the Taliban consolidate their rule. It was a move our efforts there never recovered from. Bush’s pivot to Iraq was an abandonment of Afghanistan. Biden just sent 5,000 troops to cover just the ongoing embassy withdrawal. service personnel in-country for the entire theater of operations. In 2003, when Bush declared major combat operations over in Afghanistan, there were just 8,000 U.S. Our allies piled on the bandwagon, and we were off to topple Baghdad and make way for a democratic Iraq. Once the famous general turn diplomat said it was ok, there was no turning back. Most notably was Secretary of State Colin Powell, who cinched the decision with his deft, but nearly totally incorrect, presentation in defense of war to the U.N. Many of those officials had serious doubts about the wisdom of Bush’s call. ![]()
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