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The recent history of Afghanistan is complex, but "Pulling out haphazardly after releasing thousands of Taliban fighters against the will of the national government" is, at the very least, a very strong contributing factor to the current state of affairs.
Well, yeah. But it's not the entire reason a country is broken. Plus, we've been there for too long and the government there didn't have a clue in how to go about improving itself. And we needed to go so...what else could've been done?
Everything in the Middle-East is a waste of time.
So just because the 20 years of US fuckery didn't cause ALL the problems plaguing the country, it bears NONE of the blame? That logic is more broken than Afghanistan is.
First of all, that's extremely bigoted. Second, Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East.
Not releasing an additional 5000 veteran Taliban fighters would have been a good start. Not going above the Afghan government to negotiate directly with the Taliban would've been a good second step.
It was never going to be pretty, but it didn't need to end as badly as it did.