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Look on Fox News website and watch the Jocko Willink video
Can’t believe that they are trying to punk us again after they already punked us.
We’re only as good as our weakest link whenever it’s at the top (and I’m not just talking about Biden).
We’re only as good as our weakest link whenever it’s at the top (and I’m not just talking about Biden).
I'm not even going to begin giving Biden a pass for this colossal goatfvck, but we shouldn't ever have been there in the first place.
The threat, while probably hollow, to retaliate if the withdrawal isn’t complete by 8/31 just seems comically stupid.
Yep, it's an entire administration of ineptitude and corruption.
4 Presidents all deserve blame for the Afghanistan debacle. Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. They all contributed to the f-up in their own unique ways. I get the whole "fight the terrorists on their own territory" idea, but our constant need to nation build is ridiculous.
We most certainly should have been there at the beginning. We just should have had a plan instead of wingin it for 20 years.
I believe that they know we aren’t coming back…somehow.
Why else would you be so brazen and talk reckless.
I’d make a poor Pres (to many people)….bc I would drop holy hell right back on them.
Why else would you be so brazen and talk reckless.
I’d make a poor Pres (to many people)….bc I would drop holy hell right back on them.
Breese will have 20tfl and 8 sacks this year. Safest All American bet in the country!
Not a conspiracy guy but perhaps even they know their country is better off when we’re burning a few billion a month there playing Taliban police.
Do you not understand by now that in Afghanistan, those 2 things are mutually exclusive? You invade Afghanistan, you wing it. The Russians did the same effing thing 20 years before we did. We watched it happen, and we went in anyway because America. I'd like to say I hope we'll learn our lesson from this, but who are we kidding.
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After they start beheading American Citizens left behind after that date or holding them ransom it will be the final nail in the coffin for Corn Pop.. Fact
Clinton allowed Al-Qaeda to proliferate in Afghanistan, not Bush. Bush was just forced to deal with the outcome. What were we supposed to do, just brush off 9/11. Bush had no choice but to go in, but we should have gone in more forcibly instead of allowing them to flee to Pakistan and regroup. We also lost focus with Iraq. Although Bush said that we wouldn't differentiate between Al Qaeda and the people that harbored them (Taliban), we kind of did. But anywho, this exit has been an embarrassment. The greatest military force the world has ever known is begging terrorists to let us get our citizens out. Yikes
Your understanding of this could be summed up in one Tucker Carlson segment. This a totally bipartisan disaster.
Hope this does not happen .
I think most Americans and both parties agree we have no business being in Afghanistan for 20 f’in years but there is no doubt that Biden and his Admin have totally botched this withdrawal due to gross incompetence- just like everything else they are doing.
Please tell us the real story, oh internet expert. I don't watch tucker Carlson. I do read though. And I imagine that I would score higher than you on most aptitude tests, so there's that.
I'd also imagine that you'd imagine that. Suffice it to say, your prior post was masterfully ignorant and partisan.
You know for all the hue and cry, we've done a remarkable job evacuating tens of thousands of people in about a week. We've - no country ever - never moved as many people out of a nation as fast as we are doing now.
Believe me, I feel for those who fear being left behind. I have a nephew who spent a year in the US embassy in Afghanistan in a senior intelligence capacity who has sleepless nights thinking of Afghans who he befriended in the barber shop, the cafeteria. He cares about these people and wants them out of the country.
Were there some mistakes made early? Absolutely. But give credit to what has happened since the first calamitous days. After the start, did any of us have confidence 30,000+ would be safely evacuated? Now, our job as Americans is to help the Afghans sent to the United States adjust to life here. They are coming with nothing but the shirts on their backs. Most not speaking English or having skills to perform well in schools or a profession. God is watching us. How will we respond?
Believe me, I feel for those who fear being left behind. I have a nephew who spent a year in the US embassy in Afghanistan in a senior intelligence capacity who has sleepless nights thinking of Afghans who he befriended in the barber shop, the cafeteria. He cares about these people and wants them out of the country.
Were there some mistakes made early? Absolutely. But give credit to what has happened since the first calamitous days. After the start, did any of us have confidence 30,000+ would be safely evacuated? Now, our job as Americans is to help the Afghans sent to the United States adjust to life here. They are coming with nothing but the shirts on their backs. Most not speaking English or having skills to perform well in schools or a profession. God is watching us. How will we respond?
Relative to the unfolding humanitarian disaster taking place there, this is little solace. And this country is partly responsible. Not one president, not one party (not directed at you personally @kgwillison).
The disaster taking place in Afghanistan was not so much a matter of if, but when. I agree it is terrible that women and children (not to mention U.S. allies) are likely to suffer unimaginable fates at the hands of the Taliban. I do not, however, think it is fair to blame the West's pullout for this happening. Could we have prevented it forever? Not unless we had a significant number of troops there ... forever.
We clearly were not changing hearts and minds. We were not successful in nation building in Afghanistan. The culture there seems impervious to culture change and it is we who were naive to think we could do it.
I wish I had the answer. Goodness knows I do. But having our troops there for eternity isn't the correct answer. We can pray that the Taliban will (finally) be true to their word that girls will be able to go to school, won't be raped or sold off as child brides, and that women will be allowed to work. (Yes, I doubt they can be trusted.)
