What the Exit from Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees the World(npr.org)
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What the Exit from Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees the World
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1029851226/what-the-exit-from-afghanistan-tells-us-about-how-biden-sees-the-world
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Nothing? Those things are decided and handled by the political and military establishment based on balancing various interests, the President is mostly a public figure people can recognize.
Trump was a turd. He caused this.
But that doesn't completely absolve Biden. If he didn't like the treaty, he could have renegotiated it. And even if he did, what was the actual plan for evacuation of Kabul?
This whole thing looks like a dropped ball to me. So far, the Taliban have been very reasonable (not bothering US forces, not contesting the airport, not attacking planes). Imagine if they hadn't been.
Biden got a shit sandwich, but hes done a bad job eating it...
But that doesn't completely absolve Biden. If he didn't like the treaty, he could have renegotiated it. And even if he did, what was the actual plan for evacuation of Kabul?
This whole thing looks like a dropped ball to me. So far, the Taliban have been very reasonable (not bothering US forces, not contesting the airport, not attacking planes). Imagine if they hadn't been.
Biden got a shit sandwich, but hes done a bad job eating it...
>Trump was a turd. He caused this.
Caused what? The problem started with Bush
- where by "problem" we mean an invasion, under false pretextes (doubly so as the 9/11 terrorists were all Saudi, and Obama was hidden in Pakistan, both "valuable allies" who got off scot-free) and an occupation, utterly failed and with trillion in expenses and lots of benefits to the military/industrial enterpises -
continued through 2 Obama terms, then through Trump, and now Biden, and "this" wasn't even carried out by Trump (who is gone for half a year by now).
If anything leaving Afghanistan was the correct decision (and the US should not have been there in the first place).
Caused what? The problem started with Bush
- where by "problem" we mean an invasion, under false pretextes (doubly so as the 9/11 terrorists were all Saudi, and Obama was hidden in Pakistan, both "valuable allies" who got off scot-free) and an occupation, utterly failed and with trillion in expenses and lots of benefits to the military/industrial enterpises -
continued through 2 Obama terms, then through Trump, and now Biden, and "this" wasn't even carried out by Trump (who is gone for half a year by now).
If anything leaving Afghanistan was the correct decision (and the US should not have been there in the first place).
Trump ok'd a bad deal that let the Taliban take over Afghanistan in exchange for basically nothing.
That's the part i blame him for. Bush is culpable for his part, obama for his too. But the specifics of the exit are what i meant.
That's the part i blame him for. Bush is culpable for his part, obama for his too. But the specifics of the exit are what i meant.
> If anything leaving Afghanistan was the correct decision (and the US should not have been there in the first place).
It was the correct decision but it was done in the wrong way.
It was the correct decision but it was done in the wrong way.