Afghanistan is geopolitically unwinnable.
Bush was 20 years ago. In the meantime we’ve had two Democrat administrations with Biden as VP and they did nothing.
They can split the prize.
Anywhere from a quarter million to half million Afghans died during the war. I say we remind both the people of Afghanistan and the people in the nations around them that attacking the U.S. results in way more of middle easterners dying than Americans.
This is what the MSM is going to do with their next polls. Put the blame on a lot of people. Bush, Biden, Trump, Obama, heck, they might throw in the Clintons and GHWB. Slice and dice the numbers so that Biden is not at the top; most likely Trump.
I wonder if those media people out there defending doddering, senile old Joe know how stupid they look.
Once we took out the camps we should have left but periodically dropped knives and handguns so they could sort it out themselves.
Never should have put one boot on the ground there.
30 days of B-52 raids until the rubble was bouncing was all we should have invested in that hell hole.
After reading this one line:
“In what might prove to be a defining act of his Presidency, Joe Biden has accepted full responsibility for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
the article cannot be taken seriously.
Biden: What is everybody complaining about? The Taliban is taking over without winning an election and they’re punishing the opposition. How are they different from us?
At this point it is irrelevant who lost Afghanistan. However, is is bumbling Biden who is 100% responsible for the complete cluster mess that has unfolded. Biden’s alone. No amount of spinning is possibke to change this fact.
Seeing how the world has changed in the last 7 or so months sure makes Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination look more credible.
Those were the two reasons we invaded Afghanistan -- to defeat AQ and kill/capture OBL. Had we caught OBL at Tora Bora in 2001, then declaring victory and leavingin 2002 might have been our best option. But that didn't happen, and the worst possible result for us would have been to "declare victory" in 2002 -- as this author claims we should have done - only to have OBL pop up out of some hole and start thumbing his nose at us all over again.
Couldn't leave until we got OBL. That happened in 2010, so if you're looking for a time to withdraw, it would have been then.
We lost the war the day our military confiscated and burned Bibles.
The final nail in the coffin was when our embassy in Kabul unfurled the gay PRIDE flag.
Bush couldn’t even get Osama Bin Laden in eight years.
Did we miss something????
Remember when Obama said that was “the good war”?
OH, Ok, as long as it AIN’T BIDEN.
Am I right, Robert?
This is exactly what people were saying was going to occur on other threads - Trump would be blamed, but also Bush. Neither of whom are currently in power to have made the disastrous decisions that were made by Biden and his administration.
Like. When?