I
don’t know if we should have ever invaded
The
Russians waged a ten year war in
An
exit strategy should have been planned out before we ever attacked. People and equipment have to come out of the
country before the military exits.
Military weapons cannot be left behind for the enemy. People must have a safe exit so they are not
killed or held for ransom. This is not
rocket science. President Trump had this
all planned out.
Biden
did everything wrong. Americans will
die, the Taliban has gained many weapons of war, and our status in the world is
damaged beyond any easy repair. We are
no longer a world leader.
This
is not all Biden’s fault. When you look
in his eyes, no one is home. Much of the
blame must be with the State Department, the
There
is no excuse for the Pentagon. How could
the 26,000 people that work in the Pentagon allow the disastrous debacle that
just happened with the withdrawal from
This
is one of the worse foreign affairs disasters in history and Americans will
die. But, we can survive it. There are worse things that have happened in
the last six months. For example, the
open border situation, and accepting any and all refugees. This will probably take a generation to fix.
Our
biggest problem is election integrity. If
we can’t get fair and honest elections, everything else is irrelevant, and this
great republic is lost. The Marxists
will win.
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Why we were there:
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. did not invade Afghanistan. The U.S. went to Afghanistan to seek out and capture the Saudis that planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. There was reason to believe Osama bin Laden sought safe harbor among the Afghans.
Osama bin Laden later fled to Pakistan and was captured and killed by forces under the command of President Obama.
The U.S. subsequently stayed in Afghanistan, falsely thinking a democratic government could be formed.
Saudi Arabia to this date has not been held accountable for all the Saudi citizens that planned and participated in the 9/11 attack. Even worse, the U.S. has treated the Saudis as allies and supplied them with war making materials.
Negotiated withdrawal:
In February 2020 the Trump administration negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban including to free 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for a final withdrawal.
U.S. troop volume of 13,000 in May 2020 was subsequently reduced to 2,500 by January 2021.
In December 2020 the Defense Department IG’s office warned that the Taliban was apparently violating the withdrawal agreement. Withdrawal was to be contingent on the Taliban abiding by its commitments which include not allowing terrorists to use Afghan soil to threaten the United States and its allies.
The latest Blog then inexplicitly shifted topics.
Domestic matters:
There is no reliable evidence of a problem with election integrity.
The Department of Homeland Security has designated far-right extremism as the country’s number one domestic threat.
In the 1870-1920 period the U.S. accepted millions of immigrants from Europe and other countries. In the 1950-1980 period thousands of Korean, Vietnam and Laos immigrants were allowed into the U.S. following wars in those counties. In each period it took generations, but most were peacefully assimilated. It can be done again.