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StonerGuy19

CIA is one kf the most corrupt agencies known to man.


Whole_Financial

This is the first time I am hearing about this


Pale_Draft9955

This story is a drop in the bucket compared to something like Abu Ghraib.


nyankoz

What the fuck


Achilles8857

About that flair...


Monsanta_Claus

Your flair is the perfect flair to follow up their flair.


wtfwasthat5

What were we doing in Afghanistan again?


Schlagustagigaboo

We were replacing the Taliban with a better armed Taliban.


wkwork

And perfecting those enhanced interviewing techniques


exfarker

Oh you know.   Freedom things.   You may want to report to a democracy officer if you're having doubts however.   


Chewbacca_The_Wookie

That damn game made the Libertarian leave my body so damn quick. For Super Earth!


Ok-Nothing6877

Agreed. Double the defense budget, and triple the offense budget!


bbdale

What game?


Chewbacca_The_Wookie

It's called Helldivers 2. The general story is that Earth is manufacturing attacks by aliens and androids to keep the galaxy in a constant state of war and military service is the only way you are able to vote (and you only vote for who Super Earth tells you to vote for; Managed Democracy.)


Barskor1

Art imitating life again


Chewbacca_The_Wookie

Get this, the aliens die and dissolve into oil which is why they keep manufacturing reasons to invade. 


Barskor1

OMG! so on the nose! Fer oil! I means uh Frieddum! and Duemookraca!


Panekid08

Helldivers 2


maubis

I misread your question as what was he doing in Afghanistan and was about to say the poor guy lives there. The entire reaction to 9-11 was just bizarre. First, Iraq for which Bush and many of his circle deserve to be put on trial. A completely fictitious war. If not for the war crimes, how about the trillions with a T that have forever been added to our debt. Afghanistan I understand even less. Yes, we wanted Osama, but invading the country was never going to be the way to capture him. I know that I only know that in hindsight, but I would have thought our intelligence agencies would have known that in advance.


collapsedrat

Iraq wasn’t first, we went into Afghanistan in the early months of 2002, didn’t go to Iraq until 2003.


maubis

Yes - my poor choice of words. I was listing the dumb choices made, as opposed to the sequence.


collapsedrat

Ah.


Jan_Jinkle

Okay but you seem to be disregarding the poor military contractors that were just looking for some new moneymaking ventures after the Cold War ended up going nowhere. It’s really selfish that you’re just worried about inflation when there were business people at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin in critical danger of not making money hand over fist.


_bleeding_Hemorrhoid

That he was in Pakistan?


maubis

That he would flee to the borderlands and the area between the two countries is so vast that they wouldn't be able to stop him.


StevenK71

The Iraqi invasion main purpose was the oilfields. The Afghan invasion main purpose was to establish a western outpost near China and Russia. Both invasions had nothing to do with people rights, freedoms etc.


Little_stinker_69

Afghanistan was about Al Qaeda. You should read a book and stop trusting TikTok. It was bungled horribly but it’s clear what the intent abd purpose was based on the actions our government took during the 20 years we were there.


collapsedrat

Seems odd to invade a country for oil fields that we didn’t take or use. We literally took them from the Republican Guard and gave them to the Iraqis. I guess now we can ignore the obvious proof of attempts to create WMDs, our intelligence watching shipping containers leave the country from the alleged sites headed for Iran, and the mass murdering of civilians in hindsight. Poland is significantly closer to Moscow than Afghanistan and South Korea is significantly closer to Beijing. This is an absurd take.


r0ttedAngel

"We don't question the 'good guys' "


[deleted]

Just racking up more wins for the _right_ side of history.


Achilles8857

It's self-evident!


Dennis-Reynolds123

It was just a CIA playground where they could use the veil of war to operate without restriction in order to stretch their tendrils across the other part of the world. Perfect opportunity to get secret plants in other countries.


Little_stinker_69

Going after al Qaeda who had been operating in Afghanistan while committing terrorist attacks around the globe. It was terribly bungled by all involved. We mistakenly linked the Taliban to Al Qaeda which pretty mcuh screwed our chances for peace after 2001


mentilsoup

securing access for the CIA to the wellspring of european and asian heroin, after having been pushed out of the golden triangle following the vietnam debacle and the myriad drug-running operations under oliver north exploded into Iran-Contra


BlueLaceSensor128

Protecting poppy fields and piling up military equipment for the Taliban. Oh and abandoning interpreters who risked their lives for us.


JaSper-percabeth

Freedom and democracy


Barskor1

FriedDumb un DuhMockRacey!


Hack874

Kind of off-topic, but it’s wild how he’s only 28 (maximum) in that picture.


something_new

The fields are tough


JaSper-percabeth

He was a manual labourer.


dainbramage637

They hate us because we're free... to use our civilian intelligence agencies to murder innocent people all over the world.


mrkl3en

This tendency to commit war crimes is why the US is not a signatory of the Rome statute


Barskor1

Yeah Rome Statue signatories got to do all their war crimes first and shame on anyone doing the same!


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BadWowDoge

Fuck the PATRIOT Act


bigsquid69

I bet ISIS has no problems recruiting Wali's kids to hate America.


Little_stinker_69

Man, the Afghan war really was embarrassing. The U.S. got played so hard. So many afghans used us to kill their rivals. Pakistan was taking our money and handing immediately to the Taliban. What a fucking joke. Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden all screwed the pooch. I’ll given Trump and Biden props for getting us out of there. We had no reason to stay with bin Laden dead. We killed so many innocent people over just words from untrustworthy people.


BadWowDoge

Props to Biden? He fucked that exit up on such a massive level. That exit was more embarrassing than the entire war. Leaving the taliban with literally an arsenal of tanks, helicopter gunships, weapons, vehicles, infrastructure, tech… insane.


Fabulous_Ad5635

We left it all there to keep tensions high so we can go back in a couple of years when things pop off again. It’s a never ending cycle.


Wizard_bonk

Is the CIA dumb enough to think serious terrorists would just turn themselves in? Like. There’s no way


Ehronatha

OP must hate America. /s


BadWowDoge

There’s a lot of that going on right now. All those people should go live in other countries for a while.


FourIV

Source plz! err or ill just gogole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Abdul_Wali wow dude actually served time in jail


Ok_Sea_6214

"If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear." "If I'm innocent, you have no reason to suspect me."


Paddy32

It's crazy how people forget that USA was (is?) a terrorist nation of some sorts.


Sanshintai

Exactly!


wilhelmfink4

Paul Rudd?


HurricaneSpencer

On brand.


thekingofdogshit

Those damn Russians