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 upthread
No, I'm asking about things like Biden's July speech claiming Afghan SIV applicants could not be processed on US territory, or the failure to evacuate them from major cities before pulling out troops. Policies that are free choices not contingent on what came before.
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Yeah, that’s the “mishandles situation” part. It seems awfully convenient to critique only decisions being made without any consideration for why those decisions have to be made in the first place. One may not absolve the other, but neither exist in a vacuum.
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The decisions I'm critiquing are ones where Biden had full freedom of action. He set the timetable and set all the constraints in place that led to a predictable outcome. A lot of people seem to believe he deserves credit for anything good about our withdrawal, and no blame.
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