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I believe the E.U. is going to send in their best-trained commando units to help sort this thing out. Unfortunately, they've also gone "woke": https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEqBbpDXYAEQ_KA.jpg
Should they have made clear the international response that would follow the abuse of Afghanistan’s women or the curtailing of any human rights in that country? Should it have been strong and swift? Should they have made it even clearer than they did that any emergent terror threats would be met with immediate force—missile or drone attacks or Special Forces? Should they have better prepared to evacuate and give harbor to those who aided us during our time in Afghanistan? Could that have involved keeping the airbase at Bagram open until all key allies, friends and U.S. staff could be evacuated?
Yes. Yes, they should have done all those things.
But, they could not have forestalled the outcome we are seeing now without keeping a permanent U.S. presence in the country. The Taliban were long poised to do what they are doing (otherwise they could not be doing it). Further, the swiftness of the Taliban action, designed to discredit the U.S. government, reveals all we need to know about their intentions as does the brutality of their actions. The ineffectiveness of the government to stop them after all these years of training and expense also suggests that more years of the same would not have produced a different outcome......
It could be argued that every U.S. administration from Carter through Trump bears greater responsibility for what went wrong with U.S. policy in Afghanistan than Biden’s. What is going on there now is awful. But make no mistake, getting out and getting out now is what we needed to do. Continuing to do what had not worked for two decades would only meet the famed definition of insanity. Biden recognized that it is the job of leaders sometimes to do painful things, things that damage them politically.
Nearly three quarters of all Americans believe, however, that we should be out of Afghanistan. There was no will in the U.S. to do anything other than what Biden has done. And now, with some luck, we can move on. We can move on to seek to help the people of Afghanistan with international initiatives that contain real carrots and penalties with real teeth. We can let those countries with a long-term stake in the region take a leadership role in shaping what happens next in Afghanistan. We can shift our focus to real U.S. priorities and needs.
And hopefully, we can learn the manifold lessons of history—of ours and of other great powers before us—to avoid ****ing up again so colossally in the future.
JB is the dumbest POTUS we ever had by far. He was a lousy Senator, and VP as well.
He was as dumb as a box of rocks before the dementia. Now we would be lucky if he was at least as smart as a box of rocks. Or a bag of doornobs... Or a sack of potatoes.... Or a potted plant... Any sign of life in that brain of his would be a welcomed improvement over what we have now pretending to be president.
There's nothing funny about it. It's actually very sad, and possibly a sign that the nation is in terminal decline. I hope not, but at some point, we have to accept reality... People are willingly following along with the dumbest president in US history, and pretending all is normal and well, when it should be obvious that that is not the case. We aren't just scraping bottom here for the highest office in the land... We have broken through the bottom and we now are in free fall.
We really do need to administer cognitive exams to determine eligibility for POTUS. That would have eliminated this problem before it ever became a problem. Had that been a requirement, senile Joe would probably be sitting in a nursing home right now mumbling incoherently to himself.
Here's a shocking thing.
Get the Americans out of there.
Stop the Taliban from attacking US troops and allies.
Get the hell out.
Let Afghanistan fend for themselves. Biden is doing exactly what should be done.
The right would love to keep endless wars going on, but it's been 20 years, it's time to end it.
That's your third post?
Go back to square 1 and start over.
Seriously.
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Get the Americans out of there.
Stop the Taliban from attacking US troops and allies.
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Too late for that now, unless collecting heads on roads equals getting anyone out of there.
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