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At least Biden had the balls to pull everyone out after 20 years. . Does anyone else have a better idea what we should have done? Its easy to criticize but Biden did it and got it done. Taliban was going to take back the country regardless. Thats just the reality of it
And ... no questions were allowed to be asked. The White House actually announced that he would indeed answer a bunch of hand picked questions ... and he kinda skipped that. Can't even answer softballs Joe????
Based on watching some of his pro-Biden news channels yesterday and today, there may not have been any softball questions. His own fan club is a bit stunned by this one.
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That logic applied, perhaps, to Vietnam. North Vietnam/Viet Cong expressed no interest beyond their region, i.e. Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam. The Taliban's "interest" is much more expansive. Think. September 11, 2001, the Kenya and Tanzania Embassy attacks, February 26, 1993, etc. That is why letting them "fight their own wars" is not a solution. Better to fight in Kandahar rather than on the sidewalks of New York.
The problem is we were nation building/. I can see if attacking a location holding terrorists but building a nation in an area that still lives in the stone age No thanks.
I think people need to wake up and realize this was going to happen REGARDLESS who was president. Many of us have said before, short of the nuking the entire area, Radical Nuts aren't going away over there and there will never be a permanent democracy in place due to their religion. . Unless we make a permanent base over there the Taliban will run things
Biden botched the exit, but I support his decision to move forward with Trump's decision to get out of Afghanistan. I think most Americans would probably agree we shouldn't continue giving them our resources, and lives of our sons and daughters.
For people here; when would have been a good time to withdraw? Any time over the past two decades, the exact scenario we see now would have occurred.
I think he's right in a certain way, if not now, when? 5 years down the line, 10? Perhaps when we have grandchildren of the original fighting forces fighting there?
The way this has been done, and the failure of the Afghan military to offer any kind of resistance is pretty galling though.
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