Posted on 04/17/2021 8:56:57 AM PDT by Jim Noble
It’s not just generals who are always prepared to fight the last war. President Biden’s April 14 announcement that U.S. forces will leave Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 has a long and complicated backstory. Biden said his decision will allow America to put this violent and ambiguous past behind it, to retire the frameworks that conditioned its foreign policy for a generation, and to focus its energies on the competition with China.
Perhaps so. The risk, however, is that Biden’s fixation on settling old scores has blinded him to contemporary realities, and has prevented him from answering the question that will determine the future of both Afghan and U.S. security: Will the democratically elected government of Afghanistan survive American withdrawal?...
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FIRST: "Will determine the future of... U.S. security" Absurd. Wholly and obviously absurd. Afghans gonna Afghan. They are gonna do it far, far away, and we pretty clearly won't pay the price to change that.
SECOND: "Will the democratically elected government of Trashcanistan survive US withdrawal?" Of course not. That's why it hasn't happened yet.
What these traitors never tell us is what price they want US to pay to keep their Blue Empire dreams alive. That's because, if they did, we would never agree.
He doesnt want the po lil Moslems to get hurt...
Doesnt matter how many Americans get killed...
Don't care...
No, the government of Afghanistan will not survive a total U.S. withdrawal.
The question then becomes not to revoke the decision to leave. The question becomes what changes do we make, in the region and elsewhere, knowing the Taliban will at a minimum obtain a high measure of representation in any new Afghan government.
One part of that answer to me is logical - become a stronger partner with India as India is the regional counterweight to both China and Pakistan.
If that’s the question then the answer lies with the Afghan people.
They’ve been spilling blood for generations, usually over tribal disputes. Let them spill blood for democracy.
The issue here for me is the hypocrisy of the media and the elites on this issue. Trump was characterized as ignorant and dangerous for trying to do this. Now the NPRs of the world are talking in much more measured tones about Biden. At least National Review is being consistent, even if you think they’re wrong.
Why is that even an important question?
“Should we sacrifice money and troops forever there?” may be the question.
America could never win that war because it was unwilling to even name the enemy much less fight it: Islam.
We are not the worlds policemen...
They can clean up their own damn mess...
The nation building experiment has failed.
Take this bush league crap and shove it.
Bring the troops home.
Will the democratically elected government of the United States of America survive?
We found out the answer on November 3. A resounding NO!. So who cares about Muslim countries when our own is disintegrating.
“Who cares?” is the real question
and other than a bunch of DC Beltway Bandits (Federal defense contractors) prolly not a whole bunch else
US Criticized For Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan While Just 50 Years From Victory
April 15th, 2021 - Babylon Bee
U.S.—The U.S. has been criticized for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan when the country is so close to victory, being just another 50 years away from declaring victory in the region.
Commentators, pundits, Democrats, and Republicans alike criticized the proposal to pull troops out in a few months, when if we just stay there for another few decades, victory is all but assured.
“Why are we leaving when victory is on the horizon, just a few decades away?” asked John Bolton. “We’re so close. You can’t give up right when you’re on the finish line, with a utopia in the Middle East being within our reach if we just stay there for another half-century.”
“It just doesn’t make any sense to leave now.”
At publishing time, the nation’s warmongers were relieved as they realized there’s basically zero chance we’re actually leaving Afghanistan this fall.
Do you have a plan to "fight Islam" that could be approved and funded by Congress and carried out by US Armed Forces?
Building “democracy” in Afghanistan is like opening a restaurant in a portable toilet. You’d have to be ‘effing retarded to even come up with the idea in the first place.
“President Biden’s April 14 announcement that U.S. forces will ...”
Biden made no such announcement. This isn’ to say that there wasn’t some kind of announcement. Rather, he’s not cognitively capable of making an announcement.
The swamp has has made a lot of money steering tax dollars into lucrative contracts related to Afghanistan. They will withdraw from the region when it is profitable to do so. They may not like war, but they have no problem profiting from it. This push to withdraw may be them repositioning for their next venture.
My question is will the American Embassy personnel be protected after the withdrawal?
The US military could never find a way to win in Afghanistan.
The US politicians did not have the stomach to tell the US military what to do in Afghanistan to end the war with the weapons and ideas they already had (bulldozers and chemical agents).
This left us no option but to leave.
Now, the military needs a good ass kicking.
I don't expect there to be a US Embassy there three months after withdrawal.
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