Senator McConnell on U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan (4/14/21)

C-SPAN ^ | 4/14/2021 | Mitch McConnell

[Republican Wildcat]

The likely result is disaster.

Yep.

[Republican Wildcat]

Two completely different topics. You can’t go back in time and change what was done in the past. Making disastrous decisions on the manner in which you withdraw has nothing to do with that.

And you were wrong then, and you are wrong now as to the issue that was at hand. Al Qaeda had its own country to gather assets and have training camps to carry out their terror attacks - that was the issue - not just getting the single person Osama Bin Laden.

[dware]

Al Qaeda had its own country to gather assets and have training camps to carry out their terror attacks

Guess what? They once again have the same. Again, we all knew it in the beginning. We all knew what was going to happen once we decided to withdraw. A previous poster mentioned the fact that we no longer fight to win, and that was certainly the case in Afghanistan. The whole place should have been turned into a glass parking lot.

[Political Junkie Too]

I still don't think it was a "pointless war," I think it was pointless rules of engagement.

I posted at the time that I agreed with the "Bush Doctrine" of fighting Islamic terrorists as a military action over there instead of fighting them as a police action over here.

Just look at how the Left has "progressed" to defunding the police today. Imagine how they would have reacted to engaging terror cells running rampant across America in 2001-2004 and beyond? We even had liberal defense lawyers smuggling messages to jailed terrorists back then.

It was best to pick a ground, whether it be Afghanistan or Iraq, and let that be the magnet for drawing the enemy in, instead of waiting for them to make the second move in Boston or Chicago or Miami or Los Angeles, or Indianapolis or Dallas or Salt Lake City or Tulsa.

-PJ

[dfwgator]

I posted at the time that I agreed with the "Bush Doctrine" of fighting Islamic terrorists as a military action over there instead of fighting them as a police action over here.

Then what does Bush do? Brings thousands of Muslims here who eventually became radicalized, if they already weren't before they came here.

[Political Junkie Too]

I said I didn't agree with the rules of engagement.

That said, remember that they were already here. Bin Laden's people tried once before to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 during Clinton's watch, and the 9/11 terrorists had been here for several years training before the attack in 2001.

But yes, fight them over there. I don't remember Bush mass-migrating Muslims here. I know a lot of Somalis were brought over, but I don't recall Syrians, Iranians, Iraqi, or Afghanis coming here.

-PJ

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Harpotoo :" Yeah well from what I see the real afghanis are in fact the Taliban... "

The problem with that statement is that the Taliban come from Pakistan, are not mostly Afghani,
and are funded by Zero's friends whom he financed in Iran with planeloads of American cash.
Secondly, Afghanistan are a tribal people, and have little , or nothing to do with the Pakistanis