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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Still amazed that the US Government had the illusion that Afghanistan was stable enough with a strong enough force to survive once the US left. THese stories about the army being abandoned and not being paid. What did they think would happen? And I know it's been 20 years and a trillion dollars but when Biden took office, there were only 2,500 US troops in Afghanistan. Would it have been really that costly to keep them there?
Trump was the one that ran on the US getting out and negotiated with the Taliban for a smoother transition, which might not have been a bad strategy if deep down, you're 100% sure the Afghan government will fall immediately. It's kind of like settling a divorce so someone you can quickly remarry. But Biden, doubled down, tripled down, withdrawing with no preparations and no negotiations.
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Well the most obvious option would have been to move forward with a staggered withdrawal from a few key areas, while maintaining some degree of support that put the costs and risks on American military at a minimum for the next 12 -18 months. Joe Biden is just not a very good leader and I'm starting to question his character as a very good person. He's better than Trump, but that's like calling the secretive turd eating dog a good boy only because his pal does it openly.
It's hard not to feel awful for every Afghani that may have had a glimmer of what a promising future may be to now be pulled back into the stone age. It's shameful they have been abandoned, and equally shameful this was so hastily executed. The whole thing makes a mockery of all the civilian and military losses that were supposedly meant to achieve something.