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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Yeah, as a fervent believer that the US and entire world is far, far better off with Biden than Trump - I don't mind saying that the Biden administration bungled this thing horribly. Doesn't mean I want to trade him in for anything the GOP has on offer, but - yeah - they effed this up.
How much of the blame rests with previous administrations I don't think we will really know for quite some time as the post mortem on this clusterf comes out.
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The problem for Biden was/is if he had decided to cancel/ignore the Trump timed surrender to the Taliban then he would own the war that the US already hates, politically it would be suicide.
Now I am of the school of thought that when it comes to hundreds of thousands of lives politics has to be ignored but I understand why Biden decided the best political course was to follow through on Trump's surrender, and militarily announcing 'Afghanistan is about to fall, make your way to the exits while we maintain air cover' ensures that the country would absolutely fall so you cant actually plan for a 3 or 4 month withdrawal without it also becoming a self fulfilling prophecy