Tell yourself that if it salves your conscience and helps you sleep at night but the reality is certainly not that cut and dried. There are SOME people there that are fine with the Taliban. There are also people in Afghanistan that are NOT 'fine" with the Taliban and are going to be slaughtered because Joe Biden is an idiot that refused to listen to his advisors and wanted the political optics of pulling out by the symbolic date of September 11.
Those people had 20 years to get their shit together. And despite us spending a trillion dollars propping them up, and having a 4-1 numerical advantage over the Taliban, they still dropped their rifles and gave up.
Biden actually EXTENDED the deadline Pompeo and Trump had established to give everyone more time to get their shit together or get out...
Biden admitted on national television that consensus was that the Afghanistan army would probably fold by the end of the year and yet he still left 250 billion dollars worth of high tech weapons as a gift for the Taliban.
Um, yeah. "Hey, Afghan Army, could you please turn over all those weapons we gave you, when you are about to go into a fight for your life?" That would have gone over well.
How about next time, we fight our own damned war instead of trying to outsource it to others, then complain about them afterwards.
You arm someone else, you've armed his agenda. We enabled the Nationalists to defeat the monarchies in WWI, and ended up with the Fascists. We enabled the socialists to fight the fascists, and ended up with the communists after WWII. We enabled Islamic Fundementalists to fight the Communists, and we ended up with Jihadists.
You mean 15,000 Americans who ignored years of warnings that Afghanistan wasn't safe? Yup. We counted on the Afghan Government to protect them, and they failed.He left 15,000 American citizens behind to be taken hostage. abused or whatever else the army he armed decides they want to do with them.
He's left us blind in a region of the world where we desperately need clarity.
No, guy. We have no real interest in that part of the world, other than the machinations of the Zionists and Oil Companies. Our middle east policy for the last forty years is to stick our dicks in a hornet's nest and complain about getting stung.
He's left 60,000 people that helped our troops to be tortured and murdered as an example to anyone that crosses the Islamic militants that he armed.
Sucks to be them. They were happy to cash our paychecks when we wrote them. Once again- 20 years to get their shit together, and they didn't.
He's set the stage for all the girls and young women who've spent the last 20 years living as free people to be enslaved, raped or risk death or dismemberment if the wind exposes their ankle in the sight of a man. That you're "FINE" with that, is sickening.
Again, that's their culture....
The thing was, the people who were on our side weren't keen on liberated women, either, which is why they turned on us.