[ChicagoConservative27]

Where the hell did they dig him up from?? Last time I saw Gorbachev was when Bush senior was President.

[dfwgator]

Define success. If he meant in terms of nation building, he’s absolutely right.

[Skywise]

Wow - where did you dig up that old fossil.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually he was at the Reagan funeral.

anyway, I tire of this nonsense that Afghanistan is invincible. What a crock.

The key is how you approach it. If we stopped this wishy-washy concern about innocent civilians and surgical strikes, and being nice after by nation-building, we’d be ok.

[mountainlion]

We the people had little chance in Afghanistan. The deep state made trillions of dollars off of us and Afghanistan. Us tax payers and Afghan people are the losers.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why doesn’t he do some more PIZZA HUT commercials?

I wondered what kind of communist could do evil capitalist commercials.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s not about the virus.

It is about conditioning the livestock to march willingly into the ovens.

[MGunny]

The problem is with the bureaucracy and the higher ups in the military brass. Our war fighters can do the job if allowed. The first couple of months in country had the Taliban all but defeated! A couple of tactical nukes would have sealed the deal and no further American lives would have been lost! It’s the politicians that need to pay a severe price for their doings!!!

[McGruff]

[Tell It Right]

Let's be honest. Part of the reason the large countries "fail" to takeover Afghanistan is there's not much there worth taking over -- as long as Afghanistan sells poppy at a reasonable price.

Otherwise any one of the big boy nations would have taken over Afghanistan easily if they had had the stomach for it. After 9/11 we should have killed as many people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and maybe Saudi Arabia as needed for them to surrender. If they didn't surrender, they'd all die.

As it stands we did kill a lot of people in Afghanistan. I can't stand the messaging Bush gave (win over hearts and minds and all that garbage). But it is what it is and what we should do now is trumpet the hundreds of thousands of people who died in Afghanistan, that it's many times more than coalition forces deaths and 9/11 deaths, and that more of the same will happen in the middle east if we're attacked again.

So yes, complain about Biden's withdrawal strategy. Yes, complain about Bush. But the main message ought to be that the tons of deaths in Afghanistan is Exhibit A to never attack the U.S.

[Deplorable American1776]

I agree with him. We should never got into that sub third world craphole!!

Didn't know he was still alive...