Thread by @dikgaj

1) They r playing innocent kids caught stealing the pie in making evacuation fiasco the whole issue: while the issue is that US poisoned the whole subcontinent to poison Russia, and then fled without cleaning up their poison. This is what Biden admin shd be marked for, forever.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1433125032662872065

2) the evacuation failures are an operational issue, as obviously not planned well in advance, not thought out for consequences and possible knowingly ignoring ground intel or more maliciously, preventing proper response because of hidden objectives.

3) However, this is a smaller fault, a fault of ignorance - which is unbelievable as an excuse for the level of intel US collects, or a fault of cynical ideological and shortsighted real-politik biases without thinking of long term consequences or concern for even "friends".

4) the real and unforgivable fault was US funding and arming of Deobandi Islamist Pashtuns into Talebs in Pashtun areas of Pakistan, in order to bleed Russia in Afghanistan and overthrow a leftist (or what leftism can be at most in a mullah dominated society) Afghan gov.

5) I hv been a staunch anticommunist from my teenage years, yet I remember myself the lone voice protesting my classmates weird glee at Taleban sweeping to power. For me, it wd be best to leave the "reds" and mullahs wear each other out, but not letting mullahs gain more power.

6) Nowhere in any well-entrenched mullah society, commies succeeded. What happened though, in places, was a kind of compromise "pseudo-socialism" (ex the more leftie baath of Egypt or Assad's daddy compared to west backed Baath thugs like Saddam) that allowed some modernization.

7) where the "Muslim left" didnt succeed, was due to circumstantial or greater success of UK/USA's interventions to subvert/overthrow communist attempts for power in the Islamic world, like Iran and Iraq, through coups in Iraq, or promotion of Islamists and jihadists like in Iran

8) one self-imposed constraint of Left is certain elements of "modernization" that they copy out of European modernization - that also includes as a side effect of women's education and public rights - which is a great blow towards mullah grasp over society.

9) while commies not in total state power, as in WB, or India, inevitably try to recruit Islamists as a disruptive force against state, when they come to total state power as in USSR or China - they make war on mullahs. The two totalitarians correctly see each other as rivals.

10) For me, US shd just hv let Russia fight the mullahs - over time it wd have exhausted both, but created a space where education cd replace parts of old ideology, combined with carrot and sticks of gov, and over two generations significantly weakened the mullahs.

11) Russia wd hv had to leave eventually, and US knew Russia's economy had begun to stagnate from late 60's. Its industrial and scientific community no longer enjoyed the merito-cracy of earlier days, instead slid back into the mediocracy and thuggery of nepotistic apparatchiks.

12) But we wd hv by this time, a substantial social base that wd hv an incentive to hold onto their goodies, and therefore fight - perhaps even quite ruthlessly as is seen elsehwere, and neither wd global jihad nor the evacuation drama wd be needed.

13) having destroyed that chance of modernization of Afg, US is responsible for the empowerment of the mullah to the point of unrivaled dominance and creating a base for transnational jihad. Biden can't hide behind Trump as he had zero hesitation in reversing Trumps "policies".

14) Biden left without destroying the infrastructure of transnational jihad, both the ideological as well as material infrastructure. That is what the crucial issue is - not the mere evacuation rigmarole.