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Koshmarov's avatar

"noticed how Afghanistan took Biden only 8 months to lose to the Taliban?"

The US has been losing to the Taliban for 20 years. This one ain't on Biden; he wanted us to get out when he was still VP. Barack rolled over for the generals, as always (Trump did too).

Riddle me this; why is it important for the US to occupy Afghanistan? What justifies the expenditure of money and American lives (to say nothing of Afghan lives; they will be expended whether or not we are there) over the course of two decades?

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rtj's avatar

I think it's on Biden. Not on getting out (which i'm in full agreement with), but for quite obviously doing it without a workable plan. Seems to me that it was more important to be symbolic about it (ie getting out by Sept 11), then by having a realistic and workable plan to execute. Which would have included getting the Afghans who helped us all of these years out first, and for planing for the inevitablity of the Taliban moving in quickly to fill the gaps.

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