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Shenhoo

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Both Obama and Trump wanted to end the Afghan War.


Neither had the confidence they could see a way out. So Obama dragged it on for years, and Trump dragged it on until his 4th year. Then he simply surrendered to the Taliban and tossed the hand grenade to Joe.

I suppose Joe could have dragged it out for another 8 years to keep the summa cum laude grads of the Paul Wolfowitz School of Foreign Policy happy.

We're better off out of there. I do think we didn't expect out trillion dollar investment in the Afghan military to circle the drain completely in 48 hours though. You can lay that miscalculation on Joe as you wish. Hell, I was pretty much a pessimist, and I figured the army would last a month.
[Post edited by Shenhoo at 01/23/2022 3:21PM]

(In response to this post by hoolstoptheheels)

Posted: 01/23/2022 at 3:19PM



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