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Biden directly responsible for bloody Kabul Thursday !!!
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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4983965" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">We were suffering almost no casualties, so why didn't we just stay in Afghanistan? Because things were peaceful only due to the Taliban cease-fire. If we had stayed, the Taliban would have started fighting again and US casualties would have escalated.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why were weapons left behind? Because those weapons had been given to the Afghan army as part of the turnover.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why was Bagram air base closed? Because we only needed one airport and the military decided that Kabul was a better choice.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why was there so much chaos? It's easy to see how it looked that way if you were caught in the middle of it, but there wasn't, really. There were thousands of Afghans who wanted to flee the country and they all surrounded the airport hoping for evacuation. There's nothing anyone could have done about that, and for the most part the crowds were handled well and processed as efficiently as anyone could have hoped for.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why did it take so long to approve visas for Afghans who qualified for evacuation? It didn't. We approved visas for 100,000 Afghans in two weeks! And to the extent that this was slower than it could have been, it's because the Trump administration deliberately sabotaged the process before they left office.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why didn't we rescue everyone? As always, there are limits to American power. The Taliban controls Kabul, and rescuing literally everyone who wanted to get out was never remotely feasible.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why didn't we start evacuation earlier? Because we couldn't. As long as the Afghan government was in power, we had to support them. Starting a mass evacuation would have been an obvious signal that we thought they were doomed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Why didn't we know that the Taliban would take over so quickly? That's a very good question, and it was certainly a failure on our part. On the other hand, literally everyone made the same mistake. There wasn't a single analyst or reporter on the ground who thought the Taliban would take control of Kabul in less than a month.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Kevin Drum</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4983965, member: 54375"] [LIST] [*]We were suffering almost no casualties, so why didn't we just stay in Afghanistan? Because things were peaceful only due to the Taliban cease-fire. If we had stayed, the Taliban would have started fighting again and US casualties would have escalated. [*]Why were weapons left behind? Because those weapons had been given to the Afghan army as part of the turnover. [*]Why was Bagram air base closed? Because we only needed one airport and the military decided that Kabul was a better choice. [*]Why was there so much chaos? It's easy to see how it looked that way if you were caught in the middle of it, but there wasn't, really. There were thousands of Afghans who wanted to flee the country and they all surrounded the airport hoping for evacuation. There's nothing anyone could have done about that, and for the most part the crowds were handled well and processed as efficiently as anyone could have hoped for. [*]Why did it take so long to approve visas for Afghans who qualified for evacuation? It didn't. We approved visas for 100,000 Afghans in two weeks! And to the extent that this was slower than it could have been, it's because the Trump administration deliberately sabotaged the process before they left office. [*]Why didn't we rescue everyone? As always, there are limits to American power. The Taliban controls Kabul, and rescuing literally everyone who wanted to get out was never remotely feasible. [*]Why didn't we start evacuation earlier? Because we couldn't. As long as the Afghan government was in power, we had to support them. Starting a mass evacuation would have been an obvious signal that we thought they were doomed. [*]Why didn't we know that the Taliban would take over so quickly? That's a very good question, and it was certainly a failure on our part. On the other hand, literally everyone made the same mistake. There wasn't a single analyst or reporter on the ground who thought the Taliban would take control of Kabul in less than a month. [/LIST] Kevin Drum [/QUOTE]
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