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by 908B64B197 1737 days ago
> As far as I know, there were no civil wars or disarray in those countries

Sure helps to have wiped out any dissenters during the colonial period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Canada_Rebellion

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/americas/canada-unmarked-grav...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buil...

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That may be so. But was it governable when they left?

Whether or not we wiped out the masterminds of 9/11 or not, when we left Afghanistan, despite all the military activity up and till August 31, we left them in disarray. Most of the blame goes to the utterly corrupt and despised Ghani government but it’s quite clear we left it ungovernable.