D:10746 | Tristy100 ( 121.5374 points)
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Thu, August 19, 2021 03:59:25 AM UTC0:00
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My favorite part out of all of this is the fact that Trump is pissed that Biden, y'know, did the thing that he said he was going to do and never did? Admittedly, he did make process with the Doha Accords and such, but I genuinely don't want to hear from Trump that it was 'humiliating'. That just says to me he had absolutely zero intention of actually ending the forever wars. Ending a war isn't a 'strong' thing. You're leaving because you never succeeded at the goal you set, which in Afganistan's case there was no goal after Bin Laden died; it was just an excuse to boost defense spending. Anyways it isn't humiliating to save American soldiers lives.
It has been amusing though to see all the MAGA Trump supporters that I used to agree with on pulling out of Afghanistan suddenly go full Dick Cheney 'stay forever' because Biden did the thing instead of Trump. Politics in this country, on both sides, is forever poisoned by hyper-partisanship and the culture war.
You can complain about the way it was done, sure. I didn't particularly like the video I saw of Afghans falling off of US planes mid-flight. But we got out. It was never going to go 'well', the entire military-industrial complex was against pulling out and REFUSED to put any plans in place for it. Blame the Department of Defense and the warmongers, not Biden. He's one man, just like Trump was.
My favorite part out of all of this is the fact that Trump is pissed that Biden, y'know, did the thing that he said he was going to do and never did? Admittedly, he did make process with the Doha Accords and such, but I genuinely don't want to hear from Trump that it was 'humiliating'. That just says to me he had absolutely zero intention of actually ending the forever wars. Ending a war isn't a 'strong' thing. You're leaving because you never succeeded at the goal you set, which in Afganistan's case there was no goal after Bin Laden died; it was just an excuse to boost defense spending. Anyways it isn't humiliating to save American soldiers lives.
It has been amusing though to see all the MAGA Trump supporters that I used to agree with on pulling out of Afghanistan suddenly go full Dick Cheney 'stay forever' because Biden did the thing instead of Trump. Politics in this country, on both sides, is forever poisoned by hyper-partisanship and the culture war.
You can complain about the way it was done, sure. I didn't particularly like the video I saw of Afghans falling off of US planes mid-flight. But we got out. It was never going to go 'well', the entire military-industrial complex was against pulling out and REFUSED to put any plans in place for it. Blame the Department of Defense and the warmongers, not Biden. He's one man, just like Trump was.
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