Thread by @KevDGrussing

Look, I had to do a mute spree on Afghanistan, man.
A lot of people are trying to convince me that Biden didn't do the right thing when he absolutely did b/c it's proving him right that we were/are wasting our damn time propping up an army/gov't failing on an hourly basis.

I'm pretty sure this is Joe's "This is my decision" moment and it's standing up to a Foreign Policy and Military-Industrial establishment who have been feeding lies and bullshit for over a decade-plus and I applaud him for it.

Look, I'm not an "isolationist" by any means.
But I basically take the Cronkite-esque view on the war where it's clear that it's wasting time, money and American lives and it's time to pull back while saying we did the best job we could but in the end its no longer worth it.

I know what the Taliban are going to do and are capable of.
Nobody is fooling themselves on that front, I assure you.
But the fact is that Afghans themselves know it to and they had a year-plus to prepare for us leaving but there they are folding like a bunch of cheap damn suits.

We gave them billions and they act like a bunch of drug addicts who are having their drug supply cut off.
Fitting considering that they had us protect a Poppy/Opium trade that was in fact a backdoor Taliban funding mechanism that kept them in the game for this moment.

That's the thing isn't it?
Tweets from those who actually were deployed to Afghanistan are telling us that this was inevitable and that those who will be flooding Sunday Morning Talk circuit today were and are all full of s**t.

Joe Biden may get yelled at by those who wanted Nation Builders Inc. of Afghanistan to succeed b/c they wanted US to get one over the Soviets, but in the end he's right when it's damn clear we're wasting our time helping ppl who refuse to fight.

We stayed way too long and it's better to get out now rather than waste any more time delaying the inevitable.
Joe Biden knows that and anybody looking at this and refusing to listen to the Bush/Cheney NeoCon Nation Builders Inc. of Afghanistan crowd knows it too.

If there are any failures on the American side, it's the stupid motherf**kers at the Defense Department, State Department and the IC who all made/executed plans based off the bulls**t idea Joe Biden would somehow magically no longer be an Afghanistan skeptic anymore b/c Trump.

Yes, Trump handcuffed Biden w/Doha Agreement and was a blatant Taliban ass-kisser.
But Joe's skepticism on Afghanistan pre-dates Trump and he's never been a fan of Nation Building period.
You think the guy who butted heads with Barack over the '11 surge would suddenly change?

Wanna know what Biden sees in the images out of Kabul/Afghanistan?
He sees what anybody not drinking the NeoCon/MIC kool-aid sees: A vindication of the belief we wasted billions in money/equipment, hundreds of millions of lives, and countless diplomatic time/energy.

Being against propping up a weak/corrupt Gov't is not being "isolationist", it's not like Biden isn't going to switch to Drones/Surveillance + ability to strike via drones, air and sea at will should we see the Taliban house terrorists again.

We're leaving Afghanistan, deal with it.
Sad and horrific that the Afghan Gov't/Military is folding like a bunch of cheap suits to the Taliban, but that's not our nor Biden's fault & I'm sick of people attacking him for seeing the truth and not the bulls**t fed for over 15 years.

The NeoCon crowd, Foreign Policy elites and the Military-Industrial Complex all fed us the bulls**t that if we pumped money, time and equipment into Afghanistan it could eventually, someday stand on its own as a full-function modern Democracy.
It was, then and today, bulls**t.

Stop listening to the people flooding Cable/Broadcast news suggesting to you it's otherwise, especially those with Cheney as their last name or those from the administration that decided to abandon Afghanistan in 2003 in order to "Finish what Poppa Bush failed to finish".

To wrap it up, here's the deal:
What you're seeing is what happens when Afghanis actually didn't buy into the Nation we built for them & when too many people believed the guy who butted heads with his boss in 2011 would magically change his mind.

And FFS, stop listening to the people who didn't have a clear and workable endgame in Afghanistan and wanted us to stay there forever b/c of either getting one over on those damn Soviets or b/c they want Afghanistan to be a proxy just like they were in the 80s.

And if you're favorably quote-tweeting Daughter of Darth Cheney this morning, please stop it.
You know better.

Oh, and don't say I'm an "isolationist" or that I don't know what the Taliban are going to do.
I was here not happy that Obama held his powder dry against Assad.
I'm a realist, I believe our presence is a positive force in some places and a destructive one in others.

I also know what the Taliban are going to do, and if you accuse me of not caring about it you're foolish.
Nobody is out here saying Taliban aren't going to brutally send Afghanistan back to the dark ages, we know they are.
But...that's probably what rural Afghanis want frankly.