BUT LIKE JOSEPH BIDEN HAS SO MUCH FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OR SOMETHING

[Sanlmar]

You are spot on as always. No shrieking and partisan politics from you.

Why doesn’t the US have a senior official in Kabul? In any other disaster (natural or otherwise) the Vice President is often sent. Kamal wants nothing to do with this. She is also generally considered ill equipped. She’s gonna campaign for Newsome instead. That’s leadership.

Bear in mind that the Pentagon and intelligence massively fucked this up… as they did the whole war. Biden is not a strategist. Show me he ignored advice. He will take the fall and it will be his defining moment, nevertheless. That’s how it should be.

I dont think any senior official would accept assignment to Kabul at this point. The grunts are there. Maybe 1 general? You're right, the situation is FUBAR and should have been avoided. In the end, the brunt of the blame has to be on the Afghan people themselves. For better or worse, we tried there. I'm sure there was a lot of God's work being done by the Americans for the Afghans. They had all that time to build a civil society and they failed. The president fled the country and the troops decided what they had to fight for wasnt worth it. I think the marines will be the last ones there, as they should be and those motherfuckers are gonna get the last of those out who need to come out, God willing.

That’s excuse making.

We were there solely to assert American interests. If you accept the original stated reason at face value we were there for OUR national security.

We weren’t fighting on behalf of ex president Karzi or the people. We weren’t coming in as a white knight. This isn’t on the Afghan people.

Russia had their interests the first time around. We then had ours. Stop with the it’s on them BS.

Maybe we thought we could single handedly try to change the Taliban’s behavior through extinction or something.

After a certain point…. when the numbers approached a billion dollars a day it becomes a military industrial complex perpetual motion machine. I’ll give the Pentagon an out by saying it was fought poorly cause there really isn’t any legit reason to be there. I’m being generous. The military intelligence toward the end was f’ing wildly wrong. They misread the situation and lost really big.

There is a poetic justice to Biden, who was originally in support of the Bush Cheney nonsense, getting crucified in the end.

Kamala Harris political future is finished too. Nowhere to be seen when there is the Taliban women’s issue. She ran when things got hot.

Politicians are a dime a dozen. No tears. These two are nothing special.