Sorry don't convince me that the Afghans deserved better. But the question is who incurred the debt? We were told we were going in partly to capture Bin Laden and perhaps also to punish. And sorry, we dropped the ball. We gave up on the capture and the Bush administration lost interest in Afghanistan.
Sorry don't convince me that the Afghans deserved better. But the question is who incurred the debt? We were told we were going in partly to capture Bin Laden and perhaps also to punish. And sorry, we dropped the ball. We gave up on the capture and the Bush administration lost interest in Afghanistan.
Why didn't we start the ball rolling to rescue folks years ago? But we did not.
Then Trump moved the ball along to the end - reducing soldiers. We were in the end-game.
So..... we were simply unable to carry out a task.
I didn't do that. You didn't. But Afghanistan was a lost cause as early as 2005 maybe even 2003.
Biden made a decision that closed the book on failure. The only alternative was to start the war back up. And for Afghans, that would not have been better.
The world is right to judge us. We handled Afghanistan poorly and did not do right by those who helped us.
But what can we do now?
Little to nothing.
There is lots of shit out there. Can't always fix it.
Sorry don't convince me that the Afghans deserved better. But the question is who incurred the debt? We were told we were going in partly to capture Bin Laden and perhaps also to punish. And sorry, we dropped the ball. We gave up on the capture and the Bush administration lost interest in Afghanistan.
Why didn't we start the ball rolling to rescue folks years ago? But we did not.
Then Trump moved the ball along to the end - reducing soldiers. We were in the end-game.
So..... we were simply unable to carry out a task.
I didn't do that. You didn't. But Afghanistan was a lost cause as early as 2005 maybe even 2003.
Biden made a decision that closed the book on failure. The only alternative was to start the war back up. And for Afghans, that would not have been better.
The world is right to judge us. We handled Afghanistan poorly and did not do right by those who helped us.
But what can we do now?
Little to nothing.
There is lots of shit out there. Can't always fix it.