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2021-09-02 Afghanistan

'Everybody screwed up': Blame game begins over turbulent US exit from Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2021-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 "In some way, everyone is to blame," a US official said on condition of anonymity.

Translation: No one is to be blamed. No one is to be held accountable.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-02 05:13|| 2021-09-02 05:13|| Front Page Top

#2 "In some way, everyone is to blame,"

"Except me, of course".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-02 05:25|| 2021-09-02 05:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Blaming a senile, decrepit, old power-hungry fool who should be residing in an extended care facility, appears to be the preferred course of action.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-02 05:33|| 2021-09-02 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Just The News - Evidence mounts that Biden manufactured weeks-long false narrative on Afghanistan.

Yea, right. He did it all by himself during meds and therapy sessions. The man is an absolute genius.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-02 05:46|| 2021-09-02 05:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Who knows, possibly Vlad Putin as well.

One of the greatest political opportunities missed in the last century was that of Moscow's. If the Soviets, who had the means and geographical location, had rescued most of the hostages held by Iran the Politburo would have reaped political and economic benefits untold - most favored trade nation, hands off in Afghanistan, loans to keep their economy running, no election of Ronald Reagan and an unwinnable arms race, et al.
They just couldn't think out of box.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-02 07:50|| 2021-09-02 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Interesting observation. I'm strongly encouraging Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) at Leavenworth to offer you an adjunct fellowship position.

If you can formulate plausible past event scenarios, future event calculations shouldn't be much of a problem. In the final analysis, the likelihood of potential future events need not be high or low, but they should never be dismissed out of hand. They must be planned for. Recent events in Afghanistan will back this up.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-02 08:25|| 2021-09-02 08:25|| Front Page Top

#7 "Everyone screwed up" is the classic narcisist dodge of resposibility.
NO, YOU SCREWED THIS UP. The rest of us screwed up by not hanging you from a lamp post.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-02 11:09|| 2021-09-02 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 The last US troops left Afghanistan on Monday.

And we know that how? Would Biden tell us if we had left any Marines or soldiers behind?

We left three Marines behind in the Mayaguez incident in 1975, and as screwed up as the Mayaguez incident was, it was a master class in management compared to what we just saw.

Posted by Matt 2021-09-02 11:30|| 2021-09-02 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Would Biden tell us

Would anybody tell Biden?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-02 11:33|| 2021-09-02 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 "In many ways, this is also the story of Barack Obama."

Wait, holdup.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-02 12:36|| 2021-09-02 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 If everyone in government is to blame, then fire all of them. I’m good with that.

Posted by KBK 2021-09-02 14:35|| 2021-09-02 14:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Kansas Dude: If BHO hadn't given away the OPM Database to China in 2012-2014, there's a chance that parts of the federal bureaucracy would still work for us instead of China, and everything from the virus to the bugout we just saw wouldn't have happened.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-09-02 15:22|| 2021-09-02 15:22|| Front Page Top

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