Afghanistan

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(08-18-2021, 12:51 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

That's politics for ya...something can have bi-partisan support and be supported by both major candidates, but as soon as one of the parties takes the action it becomes a case of "my side would have done it better" and the 70% approval regresses towards the "approval rating" mean.

My main scoff is the fact that the GOP removed Liz Cheney from power because she doesn't fit with the new goals and ideations of the GOP and then 3 months later republicans want to talk about maintaining a presence in Afghanistan and the taliban and jingoism and all those things the Trump-era republicans stopped caring about because "America first."  It goes back to the old notion that when your party isn't the one in power you can assure everyone that your party would totally be doing everything right IF they were in power right now.