Posted on 08/28/2021 3:36:17 PM PDT by dynachrome
Say what you will about President Joe Biden, he has stuck to his guns on ending America’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan’s forever war.
His decision not to delay our departure after Aug. 31 was fortified by hard intel that the terrorist ISIS-K was preparing attacks at Kabul airport.
Thursday evening, the two bomb attacks occurred.
It now seems inevitable that the withdrawal will be completed by Aug. 31, with all U.S. military forces following the last civilians out.
Before this week’s attacks, the airlift had been going far better than in its chaotic first days. Some 100,000 Americans and Afghans had gotten out of the country since Aug. 14.
Biden held his ground, refusing to be stampeded by Democratic critics, NATO allies, Republican hawks or media demanding he extend the deadline for departure until all Americans were out.
His adamancy testifies to the convictions Biden came by during decades at the apex of the U.S. government during our longest war.
Those convictions:
Even if the end result of a withdrawal is that Afghanistan falls to the Taliban, the cause is not worth a continuance of the U.S. commitment or the blood and treasure that four presidents have invested.
Better to accept a U.S. defeat and humiliation than re-commit to a war that is inevitably going to be lost.
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Repost and not worth your time of day
He has some good stuff, but this is not one of them.
He’s a broken record.
BiXideb has stuck to his gums.
It’s the “how” we got out that’s the issue Pat.
Can you imagine how the Afghan economy is going to crash - while we have been there we have been hemorrhaging cash into that country. Now, what do they have? Opium, sure, but what will that raise? That place has so few exploitable resources.
It’s sad what happened to Pat.
Pat, oh Pat, have you taken leave of your senses?
Y does this remind me of a Bryan Adams song?
This is not what you do to maintain power and influence in a dangerous world. Just the opposite, actually.
Islam needs to be smote.
Even in Afghanistan.
Pat is several years older than slow Joe. I know plenty of people older than Pat who still have all their faculties, but the signs are there that he may be starting to slip.
“Opium, sure,”
Chinese fentanyl will drive them out of business.
Pat has always been opposed to “nation building”. Much as it pains me in this case, he’s consistent.
Agree. His good stuff is ignored and other stuff equally ignored.
*there that he may be starting to slip.*
U R NAIVE-Picking a black communist to run with on the reform party ticket? He’s out for himself. WOOD U bang Bay?
always been opposed to “nation building”.
And he is correct in that. Especially in any muzzie country.
Trillions in rare Earth metals.
And apparently, Americans love their smack after they can’t afford their pills anymore.
Thanks CIA, thanks W.
Alrighty then...
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