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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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At this point, there is no turning around.
I supported the decision when trump said to do it, and I supported it when biden did.
But when I saw those pictures of the kids going to school today, hoping that they were going to be able to maintain that way of life...
And I know full well they are about to be characters in a much more horrific handmaids tale than the handmaids tale...
Im sorry but I think we should at least get an answer as to why we didnt have a contingancy plan to get these people out
And if the answer is the president saying "because trump" then I am going to lose it.
This, good decision or bad, is going the worst it could possibly go and man, so I ask, can we do ANYTHING right??!
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I don't think anyone opposed ending a major US presence in Afghanistan and the war
We still have troops in South Korea (30 Thousand) for example and there isn't a war there raging. It's a deterrence. The same philosophy applied to Afghanistan. American Air Power and Intelligence was still going to be used as a deterrence (Soleimani) and during negotiations with The Trump Administration when The Taliban rattled their sabers and tested him, they were crushed.
Biden just let it all fall apart. Didn't listen to his advisors who had been warning him this would happen for months because he changed the conditions of the initial agreement. It's all on him. Period.
He even pulled out contractors who serviced American Air Power and our aircraft were just keeping hangers warm while The Taliban advanced unimpeded. He also stopped funding the Afghan Military, who hadn't been getting supplied by the Afghan Government or even paid for months.
He bungled this badly and looks like an incompetent fool on the world stage. I guess "The buck stops here" was just another shallow campaign commercial from a corrupt politician