• dudinax@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    “Biden continued along the nominal plan largely because you can’t just stop massive troop movements like that.”

    Yes you can. He had every opportunity to stop and reverse the withdrawal.

    And that’s your shit show? That’s the cleanest withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2000 years. With the Afghan gov. collapsing within days, how clean do you think it possibly could have been?

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      8 months ago

      He’d have to have sent troops back when he got into office. We weren’t getting the interpreters out without controlling the ground ourselves.

      That was politically and logistically unfeasible.