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# Afghanistan Meant Nothing. A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
- URL: https://werd.io/afghanistan-meant-nothing-a-veteran-reflects-on-20-wasted-years/
- Published: 2021-08-15T04:37:03.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-15T04:37:03.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“And so I sit here, reading these sad fucking articles and these horrified social media posts about the suffering in Afghanistan and the horror of the encroaching Taliban and how awful it is that this is happening but I can’t stop feeling this grim happiness, like, finally, you fuckers, finally you have to face the thing Afghanistan has always been. You can’t keep lying to yourself about what you sent us into.”

\[[Link](https://laurajedeed.medium.com/afghanistan-meant-nothing-9e3f099b00e5)\]