The "fake middle ground" position here is that instead of saying it was illegal, Biden could have let SIV applications come be processed in the US before August, that we didn't need to make visiting a single medical clinic in Kabul a bureaucratic prerequisite for visa applicants https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1429474045238693889 …
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The debate over our departure is being flattened into LEAVE or REMAIN as part of an ideological turf war. It's the only way to defend the mix of carelessness and political calculation that prevented a serious attempt at bringing Afghans out along with the troops they worked with
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How much of the decision to break commitments to people we worked with in Afghanistan was calculated policy, and how much was due to ineptitude or carelessness, is impossible to discern from the outside. It's an important question entirely distinct from "should we stay or go"
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I'm fine with people like
@mattstoller or@mattyglesias insisting this was a binary choice, and calling the people who disagree idiots. We're on Twitter, after all. I'm less cool with them accusing people who reject the framing of intellectual dishonesty, like we saw upthread2 replies 7 retweets 76 likesShow this thread -
I get that fighting over Afghanistan is making old scars from the 2002-era Blog Wars tingle. But there are people outside of Substack and the U.S. military whose lives have also been affected by our conduct in Afghanistan, and it is not some ideological foul to talk about them
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Arguing that leaving our closest friends and allies behind was the inevitable result of "messiness", rather than a political decision recognizing that no one wants Afghan refugees, and that anyone who disagrees is carrying water for "The Blob" is taking people to inhuman places.
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You'd think the central lesson of these wars would have stuck: it's not always about what happens to America and Americans. Biden could have saved thousands of lives by making better (or less cynical) policy decisions; and the value of those lives is not a function of citizenship
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You'd think someone like Yglesias would be the one arguing that details of policy implementation matter more than ideological battles waged over cable news. The failure to get vulnerable Afghans out was a catastrophic and *unnecessary* concomitant to withdrawing our troops.
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Despite suggestions to the contrary, Afghanistan is a large country with many cities, and we left our friends stranded in all of them. This is not a "wait and see" situation where early incompetence gives rise to a smooth evacuation and all ends well. The die was cast weeks ago.
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How do you think you get one billion Americans, Matt??pic.twitter.com/6jkBPw891G
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How do you like just forget the whole damn principle here that you wrote the whole book on, this is the definition of hot takery — which is really killing us
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