It's not that I oppose opening the door, it's that I oppose the *way* we opened the door. I would simply have gotten all of the bowls out beforehand.pic.twitter.com/Zd99yCj1Vb
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It's not that I oppose opening the door, it's that I oppose the *way* we opened the door. I would simply have gotten all of the bowls out beforehand.pic.twitter.com/Zd99yCj1Vb
This is a terrible way to talk about tens of thousands of human beings we’ve abandoned. They’re not just pawns of your domestic policy sensibilities.
The analogy is not operating at the level of "bowls = human beings." The argument is that it was never going to be possible to exit in a way that resulted in an orderly transition to a Taliban-led government.
Orderly transition to Taliban what? That’s not on the agenda. The crisis is over the human beings we’ve abandoned that we could’ve gotten out earlier. Just read up on people’s desperate efforts even this year. The truth is unpleasant to you, maybe, but it’s the truth.
I agree that the visa backlog is unacceptable and we should accept any refugee who wants to come. The vast majority of "the *way* we opened the door" objections, however, have been about the "chaos" as if that were something we could have avoided.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Is the implication that Biden could and should have overhauled our visa system to process millions of refugees in the last 7 months? That we should have violated the peace agreement and stayed longer regardless of how the Taliban would react?
You don’t because you don’t know or care the details of what these “bowls”went through. There was a single hospital in Kabul that became required “checkup.” HR letter required despite US military vouching. So many things that veterans especially tried desperately to alter. No go.
So yeah there are details. People should stop asking how Trump supporters deluded themselves. Motivational reasoning without much details or facts, and lack of concern for the victims. Similar formula every-time. Anyway bye.
Professor, as tempting as it is to conclude that everyone except you is engaging in partisan motivated reasoning, I wish you would actually engage with what I'm saying here instead of dismissing me as not caring about other human beings.
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