Almost 25 years ago, the United States attacked a distant country whose government was accused of concealing terrorists and refusing to meet Washington's demands – as it is doing now.
Two decades later, US troops left Afghanistan, leaving the same political movement in power that they overturned in 2001.
The United States spent more than $2 trillion and 2,400 US soldiers to replace the Taliban with Taliban.
Tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers and police officers, over 47,000 civilians, over 1,000 allied abroad soldiers and countless others were besides among the fatalities.
Donald Courter of RT explores parallels between what became the longest abroad military engagement of the United States, and the ongoing effort to get Iran to submit to America.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/634462-iran-afghanistan-operations-parallels/
