No, he should have had every soldier throw 2 fingers in the air in the way out. Then announce that any Afghani politicians who fled the country will have all their assets they embezzled from their government seized
Do you think Biden made the right call in Afghanistan? And if not, what should he have done?
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there may have been more bloodshed then. i was going to say that perhaps the afghan govt could have survived but that would have been under wishful conventional rationalism whereas its now clear that the government was completely phony
I peeped it after you said this. It was good.. definitely spoke frankly and without the over-intellectualizing that typically follows foreign policy speeches
i agree and im not about to sit here and nitpick how it was carried out. the lesson of this all should be that the past twenty years, not the last three months, has been a complete failure
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The same people asking for the full withdrawal of the US military from playing world police and nation building are now trying to make nuanced withdrawal (read: permanent occupation) arguments?
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Not Iraq?
Both. Sad part is they all knew it was bullshyt even back then
Very true
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how are you still the most insufferable prick on here? Show us where Donald touched you
This is a binary choice, in a world where there are very few.
1. You are in favor of perpetual occupation
2. You are in favor of pulling out.
If youre in favor of #2 - there's not a lot of criticism to be had. There is no reality where the pull out would have gone smoothly. Sure it's not been ideal, there have been mistakes, but there was no way to do this in a way that satisfied all the stake holders.
All the pearl clutching about the Afghan people is a bit much for me. Where was all this outrage when we were bombing civilians the past 20 years? It's all performative outrage.
1. You are in favor of perpetual occupation
2. You are in favor of pulling out.
If youre in favor of #2 - there's not a lot of criticism to be had. There is no reality where the pull out would have gone smoothly. Sure it's not been ideal, there have been mistakes, but there was no way to do this in a way that satisfied all the stake holders.
All the pearl clutching about the Afghan people is a bit much for me. Where was all this outrage when we were bombing civilians the past 20 years? It's all performative outrage.
Should have never gone in there in the first place. Definitely shouldn't have taken 20 years to realise that the majority of the people there are more aligned to the taliban than the warlords who were pocketing the billions being put into the country along with the Ngos and contractors.
