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A lot of people made a lot of money there, but did anyone really think that the US military was going to be able to make the Afghan government legitimate, cohesive and durable?
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This first point was 10X more important than the second in re why we stayed there so long. And that's not being cynical.
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Props to Biden for deciding not to kick the can down the road any longer,
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Gut wrenching to think what will happen to women there. But I don't see how the situation could persist, even with just 8k troops acting as a band-aid. No good option for Biden.
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and let's remember that it was W. who got us into Afghanistan,
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I'm not. Fucking idiot. Worst President ever.
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and that Obama (for eight years) and Trump failed to do much of anything there.
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I'd probably have done the same. Look at the shit Biden's taking. Much easier just to leave on the band-aid.
