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It’s hilarious that the entire point was to draw focus on how Biden fucked up the withdrawal from Afghanistan (while following Trump & literal Taliban combined plan), but all anybody is talking about now is how disrespectful Trump & company is. His purpose for doing this is entirely lost now.
Edit: taliban not isis
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Taliban_deal which was entirely negotiated and ratified by the Trump administration 🙄
If I recall Trump said "they couldn't stop even if they tried"
Crowing about it because he will use it as an attack later. Just like the tax bomb set to raise income tax for regular Americans after Donald's term.
Donald Trump is not a smart man. He didn't become the threat that he is due to his own skilful manoeuvring. He became a threat because the institutions that are supposed to oppose people like him have failed.
Now that, for the first time in his political career, he's up against an opponent with basic competence he can't do anything other than flail impotently.
This has Lewandowksi's fingerprints all over it.
It's late, and I misread this as:
Needless to say I was a bit confused.
The Orange man is not the issue, MSM, also, dude, please, Orange-American.
I abide.
Fucking thank you. I'm tired of people saying he's not stupid... This man is a fucking moron. Low cunning is not the same thing as intelligence.
Even if it worked, that's just more hypocritical nonsense.
"Biden messed up, these 13 Americans are dead. Not quite as many people as I killed by messing up a pandemic response, or by blowing the cover of American spies, but if I get in office again I'm sure my decisions will kill a lot more people. What were we talking about again?"
You mean the Taliban's plan, the US negotiated the withdrawal with the Taliban.
It is crazy to expect the Afghanistan military to fight when the US president negotiated handover of Afghanistan with the Taliban
I mean the afghan military was only marginally less awful than the Taliban, sometimes significantly worse, and they weren't exclusive evils to the afghan people. Turns out giving money and arms to the worst psychopaths you can find to fight the other group of psychopaths you gave money and arms to doesn't have a good outcome.
To quote an afghan before the withdrawal: We have three problems, Kabul, the Taliban, and the Americans. When the Americans leave, we will have two problems.
The us involvement in Afghanistan was truly one of the biggest blunders in a century and it didn't have to be. It wasn't just one president but a 20 year failure in state building, that had been run with profit in mind. The us used to be able to do this in Japan and Korea(only the South though). I believe it was the corruption and the contractors that set up such a terrible state.
Given the massacres and decades of terror under the dictatorship that were required to create modern South Korea, I wouldn't hold it up as a success.
Yes, that’s what I meant… I’ll edit…