I blame Biden for how it ended.
Posted on 08/16/2021 1:39:59 PM PDT by RandFan
The higher ups were told to not put troops in Afganistan or only for a short time...by the special forces that chased Ban Ladin out..
Horse Soilders..the book
If it had been recognized in the beginning that it was not winnable, there would have been no exit, in triumph or defeat.
That is what Ron Paul is trying to get people to recognize, and he is right.
With 1-4.
And I do think Biden had a lot to do with it.
He’s the president, officially the Commander-in-Chief.
We could have gotten the same results if we had left in 2002 or 2005. Or 2011, after Bin Laden was dead. Most effective if we had left in 2002, after scorching and salting the poppy fields.
Same here, the one thing from the Bush 1 Presidency to Obama Presidency that was a constant was interventionist and regime change foreign policy. Not 1 iota worth of difference.
Trump will whether his critics will admit it or not was correct that Wars of regime change are not worth it. It is always someone else’s kid who has to go fight these darn wars, never the elites and foreign policy leaders of “BOTH parties who constantly get the USA into these regime change wars.
Where Biden screwed up was not already starting the evacuation of US citizens and Afghan allies who served as scouts and translators, and their families, for the US Milatary
I blame Biden for how it ended.
Like Biden, he’s confusing the issue. It’s not a question of whether or not we should leave; it’s a question of HOW it was done. And the blame falls squarely on Joe Biden and those who committed fraud to give him the presidency.
He's probably right. The odds of turning Afghanistan into a decent country have always been slim.
Paultards are isolationists that want to bring back Bill Clinton's foreign policy and that was as big as disaster as the neo-con foreign policy.
RON PAUL SAID “9/11 BOMBINGS” DURING HIS FAREWELL SPEECH 10 YEARS AGO.
What a pathetic response.
The Taliban are there. Deal with it.
Taliban would not exist without popular tribal support.
You clearly know as much about Afghanistan as Gen. Milley i.e nothing.
Last year of his 1st term is considered incident free by the military. Practically all of 2020.
It is true with respect to the Taliban. The truth is the Taliban feared consequences if they acted against the Afghan government.
I would not be opposed to that though I think when they announced OBLwas dead why didn’t Obama bring them all home?
You know the answer: He was in the pockets of the contractors as well.
Took a president like Trump to end this.
2020 we lost guys to insiders. Just like now, that is the way of the rags. The military recognizes their sacrifices, as do I.
But this ongoing disaster is all on Joe Biden.
Sould like Ron’s just havin the “soft bigotry of low expectations”.
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