US forces in Afghanistan, 2020 and beyond

[Jezza]

Typical US foreign policy debacle driven by those with a huge financial gain when the US creates wars.

Eisenhower did warn about the military industrial complex.

[pietillidie]

Middle East wrecker and oil industry grifter Tony Blair of Captain Creepy & Associates just made withdrawal easier by opposing it:

In a lengthy essay published on his website last night, the former prime minister who ordered British troops to join the US-led invasion said that the hasty withdrawal had been a “tragic, dangerous, unnecessary” decision that undermined the West’s aims.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -evacuated

[What'sinaname]

Listen to Biden's press conference today and sheesh, I reckon the country would be better if they re-elected Trump. This administration is inept.

[Pies4shaw]

It isn't full of actual Nazis, though.

[roar]

^^ Maybe a touch of hyperbole, there, p4s.

And whatsinaname's post was beyond hyperbole.

[David]

Listen to Biden's press conference today and sheesh, I reckon the country would be better if they re-elected Trump. This administration is inept.

If you think Trump and his revolving door of the best and brightest would have handled this better, I have a bridge to sell you (and so does he).

[Jezza]

Listen to Biden's press conference today and sheesh, I reckon the country would be better if they re-elected Trump. This administration is inept.

Yep. Biden’s a demented fool.

Weakest president since Carter.

[What'sinaname]

Listen to Biden's press conference today and sheesh, I reckon the country would be better if they re-elected Trump. This administration is inept.

If you think Trump and his revolving door of the best and brightest would have handled this better, I have a bridge to sell you (and so does he).

It's impossible to think that the previous administration could have butchered it any worse than this one. This is a new depth.

[David]

[stui magpie]

It's an utter clustercluck all round.

The Taliban has just helped themselves to all the military hardware left laying around, people are being left behind, the country is about to be plunged back into the dark ages and just to rub salt into the whole thing, Isis decides to tell the US to hurry up and get out by sending in to the airport a couple of suicide bombers that they had to use before they were past their best before date.

[Jezza]

Biden was right to withdraw from Afghanistan. It should have been done years ago.

Biden’s execution of the withdrawal has been abysmal.

[think positive]

[David]

[David]

Was just listening to a podcast and there was a great line from John Dolan (aka The War Nerd, well worth looking up some of the stuff he's written) about this:

There's this sense that Biden is a traitor by imposing this humiliation. Really what Biden has done is come in and said, "This patient died ten years ago; turn off the machines," but it's very easy to take that and say, "Biden killed the patient," and that's going big in the US media right now.

[pietillidie]

^Plainly so.

The vile grifters and conmen who engineered this mess and handed out contracts to other vile grifters and conmen, and the fools who cheered them on, wear every single second of this.

Biden is showing half an ounce of moral fortitude by making cowardly idiots face the reality of their negligent and reckless decisions.

Some of us remember it all like yesterday, and won't let the rats jump ship to avoid responsibility for their decisions. This is their mayhem from fist-waving start to pitiful end. There's no cowardly snaking around it; it's time to stop paying billions in chaos money for decades on end just so the people who created this mess can avoid looking at their ugly souls in the mirror.