Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan - Does anyone care?

[Matt2496]

He’s trying to blame Trump

 

[VolnJC]

Reminds me when the Dems wanted to play hawk and ride the nationalism wave and had the Iraq War revote

 

[AM64]

It's questionable at best to leave any troops there but I think we clearly needed to maintain an intel presence somehow.

I agree with all who say "no more nation building" especially with US resources. We should get more out of anything than we put in which could draw criticism.

Our "intelligence" seems to boil down to two areas. Paramilitary types who like to play army but without all the messy rules, and nerds with electronics. Good intelligence agencies at least used to plant people to get info and a sense of what the mood was. China does that and actually teaches courses at our universities - crudely, but they try. The electronic collection is like conversations with full face coverings and hands tied down - the words are there, but a lot of the emphasis (or this is a flat out lie) is missing. And the good ole boys are too busy blowing stuff up and shooting to worry too much about context.

 

[UT_VOLS13]

He’s trying to blame Trump

That's their plan. Everything will be Trump's fault!

 

[tnmarktx]

He’s trying to blame Trump

Big surprise.

 

[05_never_again]

"There was never a good time to withdraw US forces."

He's not wrong, but that hasn't been the message until now.

 

[508mikey]

clown in a mask

 

[TheDirector]

He said he planned for every contingency then contradicted himself. What an idiot

 

[NorthDallas40]

Holy **** I wonder what the total number of people and groups this asswipe is gonna throw under the bus in this excuse diatribe!

 

[Creeker]

This press conference is almost as much of a disaster as the pullout itself.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

NYT’s Cooper on Taliban Takeover: ‘In So Many Ways This Is Completely on President Biden’

Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper weighed in on the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan amid reports of Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fleeing his country.

According to Cooper, “in so many ways,” the Taliban taking over Afghanistan following the United States’ withdrawal of troops is “completely” on President Joe Biden.

NYT's Cooper on Taliban Takeover: 'In So Many Ways This Is Completely on President Biden'

 

[Vol737]

He doesn’t get it. It’s not the withdrawal, it’s how you withdrawal. Blaming the Afghan army now…which he’s not entirely wrong, but we botched it overall.

 

[TheDirector]

Yikes! He is doing the creepy whisper to the camera thing.

 

[508mikey]

He’s trying to blame Trump

Has he mentioned Bin Laden still being alive yet ?

 

[tnmarktx]

"There was never a good time to withdraw US forces."

He's not wrong, but that hasn't been the message until now.

It's absolutely wrong. You don't leave your people without protection and weaponry for your enemy. That's the real issue here. Defending Afghanistan is not the issue.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Says he regrets nothing on his decision to do this. Thousands in Afghan die as he speaks.

 

[AM64]

I never said Afghanistan was the sole reason the USSR collapsed but to your original dumbass post, yes the Russians ripped the hell out of their government over Afghanistan.

Socialist welfare recipients hate like hell when their stipends stop because the government is paying for a war somewhere. We at least have a portion of our economy supported by the military buy America policy ... although the "buy America" part is slipping.

 

[508mikey]

Putin enjoying the show

 

[Tyler Durden]

All he has to do is own up to the fact that they didn't get people out of there quick enough and he's refusing to do it.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Biden speech is going nowhere. Very poor response to his Afghanistan fiasco.

 

[05_never_again]

He's also, again, not being totally truthful what the initial goals of the war were.

One goal was to destroy al-Qaeda. There was a second goal, which was to deny them from using Afghanistan as a base of operations, and that we would not differentiate between terrorists and those who harbor them. There was also an implicit nation-building mission, and it is revisionist history to suggest that "we were only there to defeat al-Qaeda and kill bin Laden."

 

[tnmarktx]

He's right about getting out of the war, he's dismissing the execution of the process of getting out of the war.

 

[Vol737]

Talk about not repeating mistakes, you just made one of the biggest, colossal mistakes in all of our military history. Talk about obtuse.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

"It's deeply personal to me". I think Hunter's drugs come from there.

 

[ClearwaterVol]

That's their plan. Everything will be Trump's fault!

Like everything was Obama's fault and prior to that Bush's.