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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted

      This is a good way to think about this. https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1431763829671743492 …

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    2. Daniel Jalkut‏Verified account @danielpunkass 28 Aug 2021
      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.

      4 replies 1 retweet 1 like
    3. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX 28 Aug 2021
      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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2021
      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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    5. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX 28 Aug 2021
      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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2021
      Replying to @RightOfLeft_TX @danielpunkass

      Afghan lives also matter. And even if you only think American lives matter, to the 2,500 troops you have to add 20,000+ injured and many more traumatized.

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    7. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX 28 Aug 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet @danielpunkass

      You realize Afghanistan was in a civil war before we showed up? And has been at war since the 80s? You think they will be better off in a new civil war that has already begun? Except with the Taliban even more dominant?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Aug 2021
      Replying to @RightOfLeft_TX @danielpunkass

      America was also part of the civil war in the 1980s.

      5:27 PM - 28 Aug 2021
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        2. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX 28 Aug 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @danielpunkass

          And? We didn't start that stuff. That's just good old fashioned anti-Communism. Here's what Afghanistan was dealing with in the late 90s before we showed up. Hope they're ready to party like it's 1999! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1996%E2%80%932001) …pic.twitter.com/Ptq6p1WkC9

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