- Joe Biden, 2008
I don’t have a problem leaving Afghanistan. But they embarrassed us. It was like the Fall of Saigon.
That certainly isn't Trump's fault because he never would have left and allowed the Taliban to waltz right and takeover.
The Paultards are as insane as the neo-cons. Isolationism was Clinton's foreign policy.
People suffering and being slaughtered unnecessarily due totally incompetent decisions that did not have to be made, zero transition plan, Al Qaeda getting their state back, and the reputation of the United States damaged severely and perhaps irrevocably is not a cause for celebration. This is an unmitigated disaster. If you think this is a 'great day' there is something seriously wrong with you.
Disagree completely.
There should have been plans to keep a contingency force there and based on what’s been said it would appear ~3000 or so troops kept the supposed 75,000 Taliban in check and that says a lot. The vast majority of the Afghan Army were pussies to put it bluntly, with no will to fight or even care about their country.
We’ll wait and see where they attack the US next because it will happen.
Probably come in through the southern border which is wide open. Hopefully they attack DC because that’s where America’s problems are.
One big issue in all of this - ‘negotiating with the Taliban’. These are 7th century throwback Mohammedans cruel, nasty and bloodthirsty barbarians.
We had them contained at least until this disaster of a retreat. Welcome back pre 9/11 terrorist training grounds.
It took Pelosi, Schiff,Facebook,media and the fbi and four years of non stop lying to take out Trump.
They are all culpable.
Oh and massive cheating.
Have you seen the plane loads of young military age Afghanis that are loaded onto planes coming to America?
The war isn’t ending there. It’s coming here.
You’re a bit premature. And there’s nothing great about the way we’re leaving. It’s disgraceful
Thanks President Trump for getting us out of Afghanistan - even though Selected Biden has cocked it up beyond all recognition over 8 months culminating in the fiasco we see today.
Don’t like the terrible exit Biden did, but we had no business trying to turn Afghanistan into a vision of a Western country
Tens of billions of dollars will be shipped to the goat f....s in Afghanistan. It’s called “Dane-geld”
Amazingly tone deaf.
We needed to leave, but this was the worst possible way.
Great day for the taxpayers...except for the BILLIONS in equipment that Biden & Co. intentionally left behind for their beloved muslims.
Trump was getting ready to leave the *right* way. His ‘secret negotiations’ with the taliban were him telling them that if they did something stupid as the US forces were withdrawing or after, he would send the Air Force back and bomb them into oblivion. Those were his conditions.
Yes, thank you, President Trump, for finally getting us out of Trashcanistan!
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“To the generals who don’t have a clue and think every country wants a Western style democracy”
The end result of the “tabula rasa” philosophy must be imperialism. It’s an extreme form of normalcy bias that posits that “everyone must want the same things I want because we are all the same.” It is insane. While there is a great deal of overlap in the human condition, different groups have different characteristics that end up with them forming very different cultures. Nature always bats last and always wins.
This is the most abysmal stupidest thing I have read in a long long long time.
Needless, to say as much as I like Senator Rand Paul on many issues as it pertains to economical issues and various issues of personal freedom liberty his whole national security/foreign policy positions are totally cringe as are the Libertarians the Paleo’s and the leftist Alt-right.
You speak of Barack Obama he’s currently running the show the entire Afghan pullout and the quickness of it was all his idea he stormed it with national security adviser/,Sec of State Susan Rice.
Granted Biden was told by Putin to do it but Zero was too getty in wanting it done.
Trump? He should have listen to then national security adviser General McMaster’s idea of an Afghan offensive that would have destroyed the entire Taliban regime forced their unconditional surrender then he could have pulled out with victory in a Ronald Reagan fashion.
Instead he listen to deep-state closet quasi homo Mattis, that utter moron Rich Higgins, Drunken buffoon Steve Bannon (Who’s a closet Leninist populist)
deep-state plant Tucker Carlson none of whom ever had his or this nation’s best interests in mind only theirs.