08-16-2021, 06:12 PM
(08-16-2021, 05:55 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: And he still eventually withdrew them. Biden is at fault as much as Trump.
In the interest of keeping it as apolitical as possible, I'll just say that this fiasco is a total 20+ year failure by the American government. You'll have people pointing the finger left, you'll have people pointing the finger right, but our government as a whole should be pointing the finger in the mirror. There were two options: Perpetual occupation of Afghanistan, or withdraw and hand the country back to the Taliban. This would have been the result whether the schmoe in the White House had a (D) or an ® or an (I) next to his or her name.
And it sucks. There's no bones about it. The withdrawal, no matter who ordered it and no matter who executed it, was a tacit admission that the past 20+ years have largely been a waste of time, money and life.