08-19-2021, 09:25 PM
(08-19-2021, 01:45 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I understand, but there is no evidence there is a way to not botch the exit...but that's the way life goes. History has neither testability nor repeatability. I will say if the GOP starts focusing on foreign policy and our involvement in nation building then maybe this has an impact on us.
Maybe the actual Biden exit will be an issue, or maybe it'll just be filed under "Biden blew the exit because he's a senile idiot liberal wimp...no wonder he needed millions of fake votes from Hugo Chavez to win!"
I'd say that depends on what one considers a botched exit.
What if we had attempted to evacuate all of the people we're trying to evacuate now from the beginning instead of getting our troops out of there first and then going "Oh shit, we need to go back and save those guys". I wouldn't consider that a botched exit assuming we actually had the necessary set up for such evacuations..... namely having boots on the ground.
What if while we had control, we had checkpoints instead of the Taliban?
What if we still had control of our weapons until we got everyone out instead of the Taliban?
Now we don't have control, we're rushing back to save people, and the Taliban is apparently escorting people we should have been escorting from the beginning.
In other words, a non botched exit seems like it would have been much more likely had we simply kept control until we got everyone out.