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Originally Posted by Locke
The thing that astonishes me the most is that America has literally done this before. They actually have experience with this, and its still ending the same way.
Someone has screwed up rather thoroughly and Biden should not be making references to Vietnam because you can practically put these photos side-by-side and they're damned near identical.
You could see this coming from miles away and nobody did anything to prepare for it.
So they are either colossally stupid or...this is exactly what they intended.
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I think the problem is that we have mistaken them for people who actually care.
I do think some of this was unpredictable. The Taliban seems to be getting help or at the least, no resistance from groups that traditionally resisted them or prevented their spread.
Our governments share the majority of blame, no disagreement there. But I don't think anyone expected Aghan government forces to just surrender immediately.