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Old 08-30-2021, 02:59 PM   #1
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Why Biden is right on Afghanistan.

We’ll start with the situation he was handed when he took office. There was already an agreement in place signed by Donald Trump that all US forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021. In exchange for that, Trump had wrested one concession from the Taliban. That they would not attack US troops. They made no promises about attacking Afghan government troops; no promises about attacking coalition troops from other nations,; no promises to negotiate with Afghan government; no promises to not give safe haven to terrorists. In other words, that gave up nothing.

Even before he took office, Biden was put in an untenable position.

Even so, things would probably have gone OK were it not for the incredible corruption and incompetence of the Afghan government. And the fact that Trump completely shut the Afghan government out of his Troop withdrawal negotiations with the Taliban.

As a result, the Taliban by passed the central government and negotiated with local authorities and military leaders. Negotiated there surrender and withdrawal from the battlefield. All of this unknown to the Trump administration or the Afghan government.

Enter now Joe Biden and the new administration. Their objective is to get our troops out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible. And they have this agreement negotiated by Trump to work with. Even so, they recognize that the May 1 deadline is impossible to meet. So they extend it four months and the Taliban agrees.

The unspoken foundation for all this was that Afghan’s government was sufficiently trained and sufficiently powerful to continue holding off the Taliban. This was obviously not the case in retrospect, but it was believed by both the outgoing and the incoming administration.

Which brings us to the two major issues of the withdrawal; the loss of American military equipment and technology to the Taliban and the failure to evacuate all our Afghan allies who wished to leave.

Dealing with the military equipment etc. first. There are two categories here; Equipment and weapons possessed by US forces, and those in possession of Afghan government forces. The former were basically destroyed or evacuated. The latter were supposed to be used by the Afghan government in its fight against the Taliban. The presumption was the government was strong enough to survive without us. Reclaiming our weapons and equipment would have rendered that impossible.

Of course, that presumption was incorrect, but by then it was too late. It’s not like all the Blackhawk helicopters were sitting on the tarmac at one Air Base , or all Armored Personnel Carriers were parked at one motor pool. Ammunition and weapons were in as many different places as the Afghan troops.

Removing or destroying all that was impossible.

As for the evacuation of the Afghan interpreters, scouts and other assets, when the Taliban took control, everyone wanted to get out. But how many had even applied when they thought the government was in charge, when they thought the would be safe. People don’t easily leave their homes, their country unless under duress. Certainly they don’t do it having no job prospects and no place to live at their destination.

In spite of all that, we have evacuated more than 120,000 people in the last two weeks.
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Old 08-30-2021, 03:12 PM   #2
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Ha ha you and Joe two turds in a toilet. So you going to at least give credit to that Atlantic article you just rubbed one out after reading it... or are you claiming original thought here.

Funny you are the one I thought of while scanning that piece of garbage. Thought boy this sounds just like MoPo. And then

No Joe phucked it up big time... no amount of spin is going to shake the shit stain and stench of failure off him.
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Old 08-30-2021, 03:25 PM   #4
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Stop blaming Trump, Biden overturned everything he could that Trump did, but he decided to honor an agreement with a terrorist organization? The poorly planned pull out looked like the running of the bulls times a couple thousand. How anyone could make excuses for that mess is beyond belief, it appears you are as out of touch with reality as Biden is. 13 brave soldiers died because of Biden and all he cared about is trying to lie his way out of the disaster he created, nobody with a lick of common sense bought his fake grieving at the podium. The mumbling on about his own son was as pathetic as it gets. Worst president in my lifetime by a country mile, and that is saying something.

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What a load of crap.

The question isn't necessarily whether we should have gotten out or the date we should have gotten out. It's the order in which he did things. He was beyond incompetent. It guaranteed a disaster.
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What a load of crap.

The question isn't necessarily whether we should have gotten out or the date we should have gotten out. It's the order in which he did things. He was beyond incompetent. It guaranteed a disaster.

I am shocked it wasn't worse.
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Old 08-30-2021, 05:12 PM   #7
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We are now out, early.
And we left American citizens who wanted to get out behind.

This is the legacy of Joseph bin Biden, traitor, coward, and scumbag.
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Old 08-30-2021, 05:17 PM   #8
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We’ll start with the situation he was handed when he took office. There was already an agreement in place signed by Donald Trump that all US forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021. In exchange for that, Trump had wrested one concession from the Taliban. That they would not attack US troops. They made no promises about attacking Afghan government troops; no promises about attacking coalition troops from other nations,; no promises to negotiate with Afghan government; no promises to not give safe haven to terrorists. In other words, that gave up nothing.

Even before he took office, Biden was put in an untenable position.

Even so, things would probably have gone OK were it not for the incredible corruption and incompetence of the Afghan government. And the fact that Trump completely shut the Afghan government out of his Troop withdrawal negotiations with the Taliban.

As a result, the Taliban by passed the central government and negotiated with local authorities and military leaders. Negotiated there surrender and withdrawal from the battlefield. All of this unknown to the Trump administration or the Afghan government.

Enter now Joe Biden and the new administration. Their objective is to get our troops out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible. And they have this agreement negotiated by Trump to work with. Even so, they recognize that the May 1 deadline is impossible to meet. So they extend it four months and the Taliban agrees.

The unspoken foundation for all this was that Afghan’s government was sufficiently trained and sufficiently powerful to continue holding off the Taliban. This was obviously not the case in retrospect, but it was believed by both the outgoing and the incoming administration.

Which brings us to the two major issues of the withdrawal; the loss of American military equipment and technology to the Taliban and the failure to evacuate all our Afghan allies who wished to leave.

Dealing with the military equipment etc. first. There are two categories here; Equipment and weapons possessed by US forces, and those in possession of Afghan government forces. The former were basically destroyed or evacuated. The latter were supposed to be used by the Afghan government in its fight against the Taliban. The presumption was the government was strong enough to survive without us. Reclaiming our weapons and equipment would have rendered that impossible.

Of course, that presumption was incorrect, but by then it was too late. It’s not like all the Blackhawk helicopters were sitting on the tarmac at one Air Base , or all Armored Personnel Carriers were parked at one motor pool. Ammunition and weapons were in as many different places as the Afghan troops.

Removing or destroying all that was impossible.

As for the evacuation of the Afghan interpreters, scouts and other assets, when the Taliban took control, everyone wanted to get out. But how many had even applied when they thought the government was in charge, when they thought the would be safe. People don’t easily leave their homes, their country unless under duress. Certainly they don’t do it having no job prospects and no place to live at their destination.

In spite of all that, we have evacuated more than 120,000 people in the last two weeks.

Did you write this? Or did you plagiarize it like your hero? Fess up….
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Old 08-30-2021, 05:34 PM   #9
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Check the facts Mosty. Quit being an idiot. The Taliban almost immediately broke the terms of the agreement to the May 1 deadline. First and foremost, they failed to hold peace negotiations with the Afgan Govt. There were at least 2 other conditions they failed to follow, one of which was the continued inhumane treatment of Afgan civilians.
The May 1 deadline became null and void before Trump ever left office. Biden is a gd liar to tell Americans otherwise and shift blame anywhere else. He should be removed from office and imprisoned. He's directly responsible for the deaths of 13 servicemen and should be punished accordingly.
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Old 08-30-2021, 06:18 PM   #10
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I don't believe for a second that Trump or Biden thought the Afghan army would hold up. We helped them build an army that was reliant on us and our contractors. I think Trump was convinced the Taliban would hold tight until we got out so it is a bit rich to see people from the Trump admin on TV worried about the women in the country.

Biden pulled out troops as the Taliban was moving their way across the country. That seems very shortsighted and I'm supposed to believe the DoD recommended that. Um no way.

I'm actually more interested in knowing why the Taliban didn't just sit around until we got out. I have to assume it was the optics of us running. Either way this pull out is on Biden. he proudly took credit for the plan. Harris proudly jumped on the bandwagon for credit. No one should be acting like this wasn't his doing.
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And we are out. The with draw is complete. Thanks, to all the brave Americans who served and died.

And a big **** you to Joe Biden. Abandoning American citizens, leaving without getting them all out. You are a coward. Showing your true colors. A piece of shit who cares for only for yourself.
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What a load of crap...the problem wasn't that we didn't want to get out, it was the entire execution of the process....it was a major screw up by the current administration that put the Taliban back into power while the Afghan government we helped put into power collapsed because they hightailed in the middle of the night without being notified. In the process because of the chaotic pullout, 13 Marines got killed because of the botched process and we also left a bunch of civilians behind because they were afraid of the Taliban's hard deadline.
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Check the facts Mosty. Quit being an idiot. The Taliban almost immediately broke the terms of the agreement to the May 1 deadline. First and foremost, they failed to hold peace negotiations with the Afgan Govt. There were at least 2 other conditions they failed to follow, one of which was the continued inhumane treatment of Afgan civilians.
The May 1 deadline became null and void before Trump ever left office. Biden is a gd liar to tell Americans otherwise and shift blame anywhere else. He should be removed from office and imprisoned. He's directly responsible for the deaths of 13 servicemen and should be punished accordingly.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/upl...n-02.29.20.pdf
Here’s the transcript of the agreement. First of all there is nothing in there requiring the Taliban to continue their inhumane treatment of Afghan civilians.

And you are wrong about the Taliban not holding peace negotiations with the Afghan Govt. you it is true that said negotiations we’re supposed to start March of 2020 and didn’t start until September. As punishment for this failure to abide by the terms of the agreement, Trump accelerated the pace of the withdrawal. On the date we were supposed to have 8,600 troops in Afghanistan, we actually had less than 5,000 and by the time Trump left office our troop levels were down to 2,500.

ETA: nothing you said above is even close to a fact.
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Trump was prepared to conduct a conditional and intelligent withdrawl and cut our losses. Biden surrendered unconditionally and disgracefully like a coward and lost everything gained over the last 20 years plus so much more for years to come. That is the difference between a leader and a dementia riddled puppet. The Taliban knew that Trump would have them blown into the next century if they pulled any shit. Joe DeMentia gave them pallets of cash and many lives. Musty, you are either being paid to post these opinions or you are a truly disgusting human being. Most likely you are both.
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We’ll start with the situation he was handed when he took office. There was already an agreement in place signed by Donald Trump that all US forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021. In exchange for that, Trump had wrested one concession from the Taliban. That they would not attack US troops. They made no promises about attacking Afghan government troops; no promises about attacking coalition troops from other nations,; no promises to negotiate with Afghan government; no promises to not give safe haven to terrorists. In other words, that gave up nothing.

Even before he took office, Biden was put in an untenable position.

Even so, things would probably have gone OK were it not for the incredible corruption and incompetence of the Afghan government. And the fact that Trump completely shut the Afghan government out of his Troop withdrawal negotiations with the Taliban.

As a result, the Taliban by passed the central government and negotiated with local authorities and military leaders. Negotiated there surrender and withdrawal from the battlefield. All of this unknown to the Trump administration or the Afghan government.

Enter now Joe Biden and the new administration. Their objective is to get our troops out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible. And they have this agreement negotiated by Trump to work with. Even so, they recognize that the May 1 deadline is impossible to meet. So they extend it four months and the Taliban agrees.

The unspoken foundation for all this was that Afghan’s government was sufficiently trained and sufficiently powerful to continue holding off the Taliban. This was obviously not the case in retrospect, but it was believed by both the outgoing and the incoming administration.

Which brings us to the two major issues of the withdrawal; the loss of American military equipment and technology to the Taliban and the failure to evacuate all our Afghan allies who wished to leave.

Dealing with the military equipment etc. first. There are two categories here; Equipment and weapons possessed by US forces, and those in possession of Afghan government forces. The former were basically destroyed or evacuated. The latter were supposed to be used by the Afghan government in its fight against the Taliban. The presumption was the government was strong enough to survive without us. Reclaiming our weapons and equipment would have rendered that impossible.

Of course, that presumption was incorrect, but by then it was too late. It’s not like all the Blackhawk helicopters were sitting on the tarmac at one Air Base , or all Armored Personnel Carriers were parked at one motor pool. Ammunition and weapons were in as many different places as the Afghan troops.

Removing or destroying all that was impossible.

As for the evacuation of the Afghan interpreters, scouts and other assets, when the Taliban took control, everyone wanted to get out. But how many had even applied when they thought the government was in charge, when they thought the would be safe. People don’t easily leave their homes, their country unless under duress. Certainly they don’t do it having no job prospects and no place to live at their destination.

In spite of all that, we have evacuated more than 120,000 people in the last two weeks.
One thing everybody here can take to the bank. This post by you will age just like all the other posts you make defending the actions of these Lowlife Liberals. Like shit.

You'll get your chance to defend all you have said in support of these Ghouls. President Biden's term isn't surviving this. The reset to how things were before President Trump is going along just fine. There won't be much need for Biden...sooner than you think.
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