The Afghan Debacle
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I wonder how this would have played out if they'd left during the Trump administration. I know that was still the plan. but he did seem to have a way with middle east politics that all went to shit the second someone else was in office. Perhaps just the threat of "fuck around and find out" being a bit more imminent as a deterrent.
Still absolutely ridiculous to abandon a full airbase somewhere. I mean the US has airbases all over the world already, and you have one already built in a good strategic location and just leave it? Ridiculous
Remember the Iranian general who got whacked with the Hellfire missile that doesn't have a warhead, it just has a bunch of swords strapped to it?
That's the kind of foreign policy these people understand and respect.
The middle east is all about backing up words with action.
In other words, trump showed he had balls. He killed a general (rightfully so, too), and everyone knew it. It wasn't a quiet thing.
Dems are cowards. Remember the red line in Syria? Obama sure didn't.
Right now all of the Taliban tops are out in the open figuratively and literally, probably running open comms via. Phone and radio.
They are ripe for a decapitation strike campaign. Kill anyone who is in a leadership role, then kill everyone who steps in.
But what is going to happen is the B52s airborne now will be dropping bombs to crater runways and wreck aircraft, as well as fucking up general infrastructure. And then the Taliban will show a bunch of dead civilians and scream on their official twitter account.
becuz the red line was faked.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Just the threat of "we can and we will" is enough. They know damn well the Harris administration won't.
He wasn't actually planning to "just leave". The withdrawal was supposed to be conditions based. Doubtful the Taliban would have held up their end after US soldiers were totally gone, but it wouldn't have happened so fast.
trump was consistently against war and his envoys lied to him about troop levels to prevent any more coming home.