I’ve posting about this too much, but it just seems like people aren’t getting it. The Taliban owns Afghanistan. Everything we’re doing they are literally letting us do. A run into Kabul to pick up U.S. citizens? Remember Black Hawk Down? Now add in the advanced weaponry the Afghan army turned over. The Taliban have us over the proverbial barrel. We have several thousand U.S. troops who are sitting ducks at that airport. We better not do anything to piss off the Taliban.
You will make a fine serf.
Wrong attitude. Don't think like a liberal.
With the weak attitude of Joe Biden and his crew you are correct. But in reality our nation could do whatever we want with Afghanistan if we decided to. If we wanted to we could start by killing some of the Taliban top leadership and threatening the rest, or just leveling as much of Afghanistan as we felt like leveling. It would probably cause panic around the world, but it would turn the situation with the Taliban around instantly.
We could just tell Iran that they need to reign in the Taliban or we will destroy them.
Or if we really wanted to we could apply the kinds of rules of engagement we used in WWII and just take Afghanistan as an overseas territory.
There are always options, you just have to decide it is worth using them. And we need leaders not a senile guy with generals who are more interested in what size pride flag to fly than protecting our citizens.