Ah, I see now we are withdrawing in the other direction. Who could have possibly seen this coming?https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1425892996378238977 …
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There is a realist argument to be made that we should get out and let the Taliban murder everyone who helped us. I'm not thrilled by it, but it's internally consistent and fact-based. But if that's what you're doing, you need to be honest about it, w/ the voters and w/ yourself.
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Now we have a situation where we can either expend a lot more blood and treasure to get back to the comparatively low-cost stalemate we had 2 years ago, or midwife a humanitarian catastrophe on our way out the door.
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(To be clear, the current news doesn't change the fact, as far as I can tell, that we are choosing option 2 there, because Americans don't care about foreign policy and so presidents, GOP and Dem can break our promises with impunity)
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And not get ambushed in the process.
#Afghan#retreatpic.twitter.com/WmKwpT3ohT
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Especially as the americans will suffer no consequences at all. We Europeans, in particolar innocent nations like Greece and Bulgaria, will be hit by the afghan wave when the Turks will grew tired of them. And seeing the pogrom of last day, it will be soon.
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In that case, one wonders why European countries don't perhaps step up and provide a larger and more robust security presence themselves? The NATO ISAF skipped out in 2014 and left the rest mostly (not entirely) to the USA.
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Would you say this stacks up to the evacuation of Saigon or do people care about this far less?
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