Thank You President Biden- *UPDATE: Biden Will Address The Country At 3:45 pm Today

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Daily Kos, Aug. 16, 2021.

Thank you for the courage to pull our troops out of Afghanistan. Thank you for putting an end to 20 years of wishful thinking, lies, corruption, billions of dollars wasted, and blood and sacrifice that ultimately served no purpose of ours.

The American people had grown so numb to America’s longest war, we could have kept doing the same things over and over for another 20 years to no better result. Once more we’ve found we can’t bomb democracy into a country. We can’t shoot our way into building up a nation. We can’t install a working government with drone strikes or by pouring money down a rathole.

And we can’t trust the military to admit it can’t be done, to confess that what we were doing was not working. Telling the truth when it is bad news has always been career suicide at the Pentagon. The fault is not entirely theirs either. We’ve put so much effort into claiming they are the best in the world at what they do – we don’t want to hear it when what they have been tasked with is something without a military solution. They’re always supposed to win.

Generals came and went. Always a just few more billions would make the difference. Always just a few more troops would turn the balance. Always just more training for the locals would give them the skills they needed to defend their country – but not the motivation or the leadership they needed to make it happen. The speed of the collapse has demonstrated how hollow all of those hopes were, how little connection they had to the actual situation.

Year after year...

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