This is a good way to think about this. https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1431763829671743492 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
On the face of it it seems like a reasonable compromise. Establishing a "safe zone" doesn't necessarily imply permanent occupation, does it? Am I too naive? Thousands of Afghans would probably flock to a "safe zone", so it sounds like a humanitarian win to me.
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Replying to @danielpunkass @HeerJeet
We had that. Every major city in Afghanistan. But Biden wanted "ended wars" on his history bio.
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Replying to @RightOfLeft_TX @danielpunkass
Read the Afghanistan Papers. In private every top level military and civilian leader acknowledged that the status quo was unsustainable, that the Afghan gov't was a fraud, the Afghan army incapable of fighting on own, etc.https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/ …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @danielpunkass
We lost more Americans on 9/11 than we have in 20 years in Afghanistan. Nonsense like this is a failure of imagination. If you think this is bad....pic.twitter.com/OshYbEwo7p
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Realpolitiks is advocating the bad to prevent the very bad. All that's left to be seen here is how bad very bad will be.
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"Vietnam is a mess and an unwinnable war. Let's leave" *Get's Khmer Rouged*
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Hilariously it was the Vietnamese who defeated and deposed the Khmer Rouge (who were, even more hilariously, supported in that proxy war by China and the United States.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @danielpunkass
Yes. They did so after their own Frankenstein got loose.
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