Trump locked us into getting out of Afghanistan via the Doha Agreement agreed to by Trump and his Taliban kiss-ass negotiator.
I would remind everybody that there was very real plans by Trump to BRING THE TALIBAN TO CAMP DAVID ON 9/11 LAST YEAR.
We were gonna be held to that.
I would remind everybody that there was very real plans by Trump to BRING THE TALIBAN TO CAMP DAVID ON 9/11 LAST YEAR.
We were gonna be held to that.
And it helps that Biden was NEVER a fan of Nation Building Inc. of Afghanistan to begin with, esp as it came after we completely dumped the concept of Afghanistan the moment W decided to "finish Daddy's job" in Iraq.
And just like how we put a mostly-Shi'ite Gov't chummy with Iran in charge in Iraq, we put in a Gov't in Afghanistan ill-equipped to deal w/its Tribal elements AND susceptible to corruption.
Didn't help the Taliban got backdoor $ thru the Poppy trade that we did NOTHING to stop.
Didn't help the Taliban got backdoor $ thru the Poppy trade that we did NOTHING to stop.
And now, after 20 years of blood and money given to this country, we start following thru on what the US committed in that Doha Agreement to and Afghanis decide to lose the will to fight for their country?
That says more about Afghanis than it does us, I'm sorry.
That says more about Afghanis than it does us, I'm sorry.
We gave them the tools and, like, 15 years of training.
They decide to just...give up because we're doing what we committed last year to do?
The Afghan Gov't/Military had a full year and even a few months more to prepare for this, and they shown how much money and time we wasted.
They decide to just...give up because we're doing what we committed last year to do?
The Afghan Gov't/Military had a full year and even a few months more to prepare for this, and they shown how much money and time we wasted.
The horrors of the Taliban are real and will be real.
But the fact of the matter is this: We put in Billions of Dollars and YEARS of time trying to put the country on its own two feet and they decide to cut them because their foreign sugar daddy decided to cut off their supply.
But the fact of the matter is this: We put in Billions of Dollars and YEARS of time trying to put the country on its own two feet and they decide to cut them because their foreign sugar daddy decided to cut off their supply.
Anyone out here suggesting that Biden should fully reverse course and stay in Afghanistan with a sizeable force is asking for delaying the inevitable and propping up a Gov't now clearly shown to everybody to be a weak and pathetic joke.
I don't wanna hear it.
I don't wanna hear it.
If Afghanistan's Gov't/Military is this weak, why should we spend a cent more and a minute more propping it up?
Biden knows that staying and propping up a failed state is worthless, regardless of whose set to replace it.
That's why he's going to tell these NeoCons to stick it.
Biden knows that staying and propping up a failed state is worthless, regardless of whose set to replace it.
That's why he's going to tell these NeoCons to stick it.
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