The “stay forever” argument requires assuming that people who have been consistently lying about Afghanistan for years and did nothing with two decades and a trillion dollars can now be trusted, and it’s hard to argue with Biden deciding that he’s had enough https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1426560986283192322 …
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Scott Lemieux Retweeted Isaac Chotiner
Agree with *this* criticism of Biden 100%:https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1426690252358307844 …
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Particularly starting with Obama (foolishly) agreeing to the surge rather than declaring mission accomplished and leaving after OBL was killed, the US owns this; they can't just blame Afghans for this massive foreign policy fail
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I think the US leaving was always going to be a disaster, and the longer we stayed the worse the disaster was going to be; but our presence there was _also_ a constantly worsening disaster, and staying forever was never going to be tenable.
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