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Afghanistan
Biden Rejected Military Views on Afghanistan: NYT
2021-04-19
One must feel for our senior generals. After all their plotting and scheming to drive out that horrible Donald Trump, with his old-fashioned ideas about winning decisively or cutting the nation’s losses and walking away, they’re stuck with a perverted, senile corruptocrat who not only openly despises them but actually agrees with The Donald about pulling out — and is going to shame them before the entire world by making them haul down the colours on 9/11. What exactly one feels may be one of the less savoury emotions, to be sure, but one feels it very strongly indeed.
[ToloNews] The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 reported on Saturday that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq was followed by the explosive growth of ISIS

after ISIS overran much of Iraq the US came back to Iraq

had the US not done this, ISIS might have taken Baghdad or at least part of Baghdad and slaughtered tens of thousands until Iran brought its own troops in and slaughtered both ISIS and lots of civilians until a shaky truce was reached

This would have been horrible for the innocent civilians but, from a realpolitik view, a result that would have spared American lives and resources and maybe even led to some de radicalization in the Islamic world

Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-04-19 19:00  

#5  Bidet listens to the Chairman of the Central Committee over at the Kalorama Kompound and especially the voice of foreign policy,ValJar. Everything else is MSM enabled theater for the rubes. Obama 3.0, Alinsky and Cloward-Piven strategies all in play.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-04-19 12:44  

#4  It's the old adage for the GOs - be careful what you wish for, you may get it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-04-19 07:16  

#3  Pff, as if the elected government commands the military. They'll manufacture some false flag like they did with the Syria chemical attack and say troops can't be withdrawn.

Or they'll just declare the president a threat to national security and act accordingly.
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344   2021-04-19 01:44  

#2  Biden said that diplomacy will continue with regional nations, “especially Pakistan.”

All I need to know. No surprises of course.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-04-19 01:33  

#1  Mission Accomplished
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-19 00:09  

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