Biden: 100% responsible.
Bush: 100% responsible.
< /sarc >
But Bush takes the "summa cum laude" dishonor.
Posted on 08/16/2021 12:29:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In what might prove to be a defining act of his Presidency, Joe Biden has accepted full responsibility for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. And, it seems, just about everyone agrees he should. From radical feminists to the British Defence Secretary, there is unanimity that it was lost on Joe’s watch. Howls of feminist outrage characterise the decision as unconscionable, as it betrays 20 years of female emancipation, while Ben Wallace has made clear that Britain is powerless to act alone and the responsibility lies with the President. At one level, this is self-evidently true: Joe Biden has made the formal decision to withdraw residual American forces from Afghanistan. But the country was lost in the summer of 2002, not 2021. What we are witnessing now is no more than the final, largely pre-destined act of an attenuated tragedy.
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Afghanistan is geopolitically unwinnable.
Bush was 20 years ago. In the meantime we’ve had two Democrat administrations with Biden as VP and they did nothing.
They can split the prize.
Anywhere from a quarter million to half million Afghans died during the war. I say we remind both the people of Afghanistan and the people in the nations around them that attacking the U.S. results in way more of middle easterners dying than Americans.
This is what the MSM is going to do with their next polls. Put the blame on a lot of people. Bush, Biden, Trump, Obama, heck, they might throw in the Clintons and GHWB. Slice and dice the numbers so that Biden is not at the top; most likely Trump.
I wonder if those media people out there defending doddering, senile old Joe know how stupid they look.
Once we took out the camps we should have left but periodically dropped knives and handguns so they could sort it out themselves.
Never should have put one boot on the ground there.
30 days of B-52 raids until the rubble was bouncing was all we should have invested in that hell hole.
After reading this one line:
“In what might prove to be a defining act of his Presidency, Joe Biden has accepted full responsibility for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
the article cannot be taken seriously.
You’re hired! :)
Biden: 100% responsible.
Bush: 100% responsible.
< /sarc >
But Bush takes the "summa cum laude" dishonor.
Yes, the old “there’s plenty of blame to go around” line.
And that should be how we do it hence forth.
Annihilation and leave.
Biden: What is everybody complaining about? The Taliban is taking over without winning an election and they’re punishing the opposition. How are they different from us?
At this point it is irrelevant who lost Afghanistan. However, is is bumbling Biden who is 100% responsible for the complete cluster mess that has unfolded. Biden’s alone. No amount of spinning is possibke to change this fact.
I would blame more the western leaders around Obama’s time in office, they had a stable situation which could have been reinforced and they had a reasonably strong government in place, but they let all that slide gradually after Osama bin Laden was captured. Such gains as might have been made were already eroding when Trump took office and he could see it was a choice between massive reinforcement or making a deal, and he chose the latter probably knowing that public opinion would not support massive occupation forces for many years to come. I don’t blame Trump for that but had the previous government acted differently he might have had a viable situation that could be maintained.
Not everyone there is going to want the Taliban so there is likely to be ongoing hostilities. At this point we should just quarantine the whole mess and keep an eye on the intel implications from a safe distance.
“Afghanistan is geopolitically unwinnable.“
I don’t believe that. You just have to kill everyone.
Seeing how the world has changed in the last 7 or so months sure makes Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination look more credible.
They’re warring, murderous, blood-drenched *tribes*, like North Vietnam was/is; not a *nation*, like Germany and Japan were.
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