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Joe Biden’s top military advisers and diplomats urged the president to maintain roughly 2,500 troops in Afghanistan while pursuing a peace agreement among warring Afghan groups, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper reports that administration officials warned the president that security in the country was deteriorating against an inadequate Afghan military and a rapidly moving Taliban, and a withdrawal of US forces would leave Afghanistan vulnerable to capture and collapse.
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This was my post a few days ago before the report that he indeed ignored the military advisers.
Too bad so many including conservatives who don't understand the reality of the war we are ENGAGED IN.
We can pretend it will get better simply by withdrawing. Out of sight out of mind.
The truth is it puts us and our armed forces and the citizens of this country in great danger.
The withdrawal from Mogadishu in 1993, is what made al qaeda grow and bin laden used that as the rallying cry and thousands of Muslims joined that terror organization as a result.
It put the military and this country in grave danger and the fact that so many cannot see this is sad.
The democraps are an absolute danger to our way of life and anyone supporting them is a clear and present danger.
You all see how china is crowing about the US abandonment of Afghanistan? They are now telling Taiwan that the US has no stomach to uphold the freedoms we supposedly love so much.
What a disaster the left is to our world. What a danger they all are to our very eternal souls.
Wake up conservatives. When the left agree with you about anything, that is the very first indication that you should rethink your thoughts.
The newspaper reports that administration officials warned the president that security in the country was deteriorating against an inadequate Afghan military and a rapidly moving Taliban, and a withdrawal of US forces would leave Afghanistan vulnerable to capture and collapse.
Biden overruled top generals’ advice to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, report says
President has remained ‘squarely’ behind decision to finalise US involvement in America’s longest war
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This May Tick A Lot Of Conservatives Off, But i agree with Biden - Afghanistan War Can NOT Be Won
I can't disagree with that. But we absolutely owe all of the Afghanees who risked their lives to be translators for US soldiers to get them and their families out safely. There are thousands of them and they and their families are marked for death by the Taliban. You talk from an era where we...
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This was my post a few days ago before the report that he indeed ignored the military advisers.
Too bad so many including conservatives who don't understand the reality of the war we are ENGAGED IN.
We can pretend it will get better simply by withdrawing. Out of sight out of mind.
The truth is it puts us and our armed forces and the citizens of this country in great danger.
The withdrawal from Mogadishu in 1993, is what made al qaeda grow and bin laden used that as the rallying cry and thousands of Muslims joined that terror organization as a result.
It put the military and this country in grave danger and the fact that so many cannot see this is sad.
The democraps are an absolute danger to our way of life and anyone supporting them is a clear and present danger.
You all see how china is crowing about the US abandonment of Afghanistan? They are now telling Taiwan that the US has no stomach to uphold the freedoms we supposedly love so much.
What a disaster the left is to our world. What a danger they all are to our very eternal souls.
Wake up conservatives. When the left agree with you about anything, that is the very first indication that you should rethink your thoughts.
