Afghanistan deadline

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Skybird

On the one hand, it looked as if Biden, like a bad loser, was pointing his finger at an apparently unwilling army in order to shift the blame from itself. On the other hand, there is also something to it. The Americans worked hard to train the Afghan army. They invested billions of dollars and provided the equipment. The Afghan army and national police comprised 300,000 soldiers; they outnumbered the Taliban by more than four times. Could it really be expected that they would offer next to no resistance? -

Yeah, this isn't Biden's fault, it's not Trump's fault. It's the primitives in the general Afghan population who allowed this to happen. They had 20 years to learn how to run a civilized country and obviously they just aren't cut out for it. I don't feel the least bit sorry for them. They don't want it.

Biden has been the White House's most experienced foreign policy maker for at least half a century. He saw the end of the Vietnam War as a young senator. Even so, he was told not to have learned anything from history. That's not true.

Ha!


Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary for the Bush and Obama administrations, said in his memoir that Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

Yeah, that's pretty obvious. Biden has always been a mediocre party hack and he has not improved with age.