08-18-2021, 12:51 PM
We're out, and I'm glad we're out. It's a shitshow over there right now and it would have been regardless. Someone else said it, already, but pulling out of Afghanistan was one thing I agreed with Trump on. It frustrates me how political this has become when just a couple months ago something like 70% of the country was on board with pulling out. Now we're below half and it's all because people want to live in a fantasy land where Afghanistan was somehow going to be some beacon of democracy in the region. It was never going to be that way. We should help those that helped us and are now in danger, and wash our hands of the place. It sucks to say and it may seem cruel, but that's my feeling on this.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR