• NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Iraq was something else completely different and it was very shady. Nothing about the justifications there made sense.

    Afghanistan was fairly cut and dry. The Taliban refused to turn over bin Laden and the US invaded.

    It later became a multilateral international peacekeeping mission primarily with NATO nations.

    I actually went to Afghanistan during the war in 2010. Even then it was clear that NATO controlled green zones only and everything outside those green zones were run by the shadow Taliban government.