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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2021

    1. Ryan Crocker, former ambassador to Afghanistan under Barack Obama, has a NY Times piece which is a perfect distillation of the ridiculous new Blob conventional wisdom that Afghanistan could have been a long-term intervention like South Korea or Germany but Biden fucked it up

    7:07 AM - 23 Aug 2021
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2021

        2. Crocker's crock: "Biden’s decision to withdraw all U.S. forces destroyed an affordable status quo that could have lasted indefinitely at a minimum cost in blood and treasure." Affordable for whom? At whose minimum cost?pic.twitter.com/wxNd9JtDKH

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Aug 2021

        3. Some thoughts on the new Afghanistan war apologetics and what they get wrong.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/lies-about-afghanistan?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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      2. Sunny Jim‏ @sunnyjim4 23 Aug 2021
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        but now South Korean, German, and Italian insurgents feel empowered and will rise up and foment an insurrection and civil war.

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      3. Lin/#Vaccinate #NoTrumpPardon  🆘‏ @linmp1031 23 Aug 2021
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        MmmmHmm.

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      1. HawaiiDelilah™ votes DEMOCRATIC BLUE‏ @HawaiiDelilah 23 Aug 2021
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        The very same Ryan Crocker who in a 2012 speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace claimed Afghan security forces were capable & multifaceted. He was wrong about that... and a whole lot of other stuff.

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      1. Jamie Cinder‏ @Jamie_Foxworthy 23 Aug 2021
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        And now they're going to help the GOP win the 2022 midterms and 2024 election because Biden ended the forever war.

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      1. Chad van der Muren  🇨🇦‏ @foehammer01 23 Aug 2021
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        The short memory of the public....

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      1. Charles C. Bentley‏ @ZeitVox 23 Aug 2021
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        After the error of invading, a sine qua non for such a sustained presence would have been creation of an actual government (at least of substance akin to Japan & Germany).... not a charade with haberdasher Karzai preening in reflections of vacuity.

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      1. ⛧ Stefan Dreier ⛧‏ @s3rp86 23 Aug 2021
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        He does know that the US military has zero function running South Korea or Germany ? Outside of maneuvers here and there the US troops don't really do a much besides the usual general US imperialism thing. In Afghanistan US presense was the reason government was in power at all

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      1. jl‏ @laje0101 23 Aug 2021
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        I believe he was put in place by Bush. It's not inaccurate to say that Biden retained him, but I think noting that he was a Bush guy is key context when evaluating his credibility and potential biases.

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