“I’m getting sick and tired of hearing about our moral obligation...There’s a point where you are incapable of meeting worldwide moral obligations"

[basquebromance]

Joe Biden said it in 1975, arguing against US aid to Cambodia

Biden’s Long Trail of Betrayals

Why is the president so consistently wrong on major foreign-policy matters?

www.theatlantic.com

 

[basquebromance]

As vice president, Biden “argued that the United States does not have an obligation to Afghans who trusted the United States,” telling Richard Holbrooke, “We don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”

 

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in the article Miller says: “By virtually every metric of human development, Afghans are better off today than they were 20 years ago.”

Not to get bogged down in irrelevancies, but how about Americans? Are Americans better off today than they were 20 years ago?

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Aren't politicians the worst? I mean just the worst form of corrupt rats.

 

[Synthaholic]

in the article Miller says: “By virtually every metric of human development, Afghans are better off today than they were 20 years ago.”

Not to get bogged down in irrelevancies, but how about Americans? Are Americans better off today than they were 20 years ago?

No, Americans are not better off today because politicians like George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Bill Frist sent our trillions of dollars to Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Nobody has EVER been obliged to help ME out. WTF should I have to be obliged to anybody on this planet, who hasn't done SHIT for me?