Afghanistan
Aug. 16th, 2021 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribAs I'm writing this, I'm listening to Congresswoman Liz Cheney criticize the US pullout from Afghanistan. Unless you've been under a rock, the news is wall-to-wall video of the collapse of the US-backed government in Afghanistan. I rarely if ever say this, but Trump was right. (Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.) We needed to leave Afghanistan. If after 20 years, 3000 American dead and a trillion bucks, the US government can't last a month, then we're doing it wrong.
As Biden said, "One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country. And an endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me,” he said on Saturday."
So far, I've seen not a peep about this pullout from the various conservatives I follow. Sometimes, the right thing to do is obvious to all.
As Biden said, "One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country. And an endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me,” he said on Saturday."
So far, I've seen not a peep about this pullout from the various conservatives I follow. Sometimes, the right thing to do is obvious to all.
