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[Judi Lynn]

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[Jarqui]

1. To do anything else other than what Biden did,

was risking more American soldiers and a perpetuation of the war.

If terrorist activities resume, Biden can whack them.

But the black hole of sucking money from the Us had to end as well.

The Afghans own army sold its people out. And the interpreters, etc caught in there have their own countrymen to blame much more than Biden.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. And here come the armchair generals

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. He was a little but since he believed so strongly in ending the war/occupation

it was probably a good thing to use TFG’s Taliban agreement to move forward.

Funny how Rs complaining what he did were silent on TFG’s bungling of the exit ‘plan.’ Or how they are trying to erase what he said about Biden not being able to stop the exit and all the other crap they have come up with the last few days.

GAG!

[Atticus]

4. And, if Biden had "opted out" of Trump's deal---as this former Trump defense secretary

disingenuously proposes---just how many tens of thousands of our troops would have had to be redeployed to Afghanistan?

How many US deaths and how many more billions of dollars would that "opt out" have cost?

And, WHAT U.S. INTEREST WOULD IT HAVE SERVED?

Chris Miller is peddling bullshit---and he knows it.

[samsingh]

5. that's a good point

aside from the humanitarian disaster, there is now an incubating group for more extremists, China will fill the void as well.

unfortunately, this was a very bad move. Imbecile trump did many things that are being reversed. Traitor trump signed a deal that left us weaker and allowed extremists to take Afghanistan. Why would we follow that deal? Statements in the last few weeks clearly show we were not expecting a Taliban takeover so quickly.

This was an unforced error that is going to be horrible for the world.

[kacekwl]

6. We all know trumps deal

was like all his deals. All talk no action. He never would have followed thru.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Who knows what side deals Trump made

and what info he never told the incoming admin.
No wonder he planned to be reinstated.
Incompetence or orchestration. Nothing would surprise.