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Saturday, July 10, 2021
Why Is Biden Really Pulling Out Of Afghanistan?
The US disaster in Afghanistan.
As the US pulls its troops out of Afghanistan, Robert Inlakesh asks why they’re going now and whether any good came from America’s longest war. Did the US ultimately just create more terrorism?
Biden is pulling out of Afghanistan because Trump so diminished the US military presence (18,000 mercenaries and CIA contractors aside) that Biden would have had to make politically unpalatable increases in troop numbers to stay (or at least to have even any marginal effect, not that 19 years of bombing and so-on was very effective). In other words, Trump gave Biden a lucky opening to leave, which the military industrial complex would have nixed if it were not already effectively a fait accompli. So Biden's guys can turn their attention to other places in which the administration is more interested.
Afghanistan was screwed up before the Americans arrived, and screwed up it remained these last 20 years.
ReplyDeleteThey never recovered from the depredations of Alexander the Grrrreat.
ReplyDeleteWe should have dropped 2 nukes on Tora Bora, then threatened Kabul with a third unless they gave up Al
ReplyDeletequeda within 24 hours… then left…
but the born again douchebag who’s wife had him under coercion didn’t have the stones..
Biden is pulling out of Afghanistan because Trump so diminished the US military presence (18,000 mercenaries and CIA contractors aside) that Biden would have had to make politically unpalatable increases in troop numbers to stay (or at least to have even any marginal effect, not that 19 years of bombing and so-on was very effective). In other words, Trump gave Biden a lucky opening to leave, which the military industrial complex would have nixed if it were not already effectively a fait accompli. So Biden's guys can turn their attention to other places in which the administration is more interested.
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