Look, I try not to care, too much, about what goes on in other countries. I try not to think about all the Afghans that will die, now; all the 12-year-olds who will be married off; the fall of an entire country; the fact that terrorists will have a breeding ground again; or the total waste of money and life that this all represents...
But it's kind of hard to just "ignore" what is going on. Your country has just capitulated, betrayed its allies and left complete destruction in its wake, for what, FOR WHAT?
And why, because a couple of old men (first Trump, and now dipshit Biden) decided it was politically expedient to do so...
I just... It's disgusting, to be frank. And you know what's significant? I suspect this represents the end of American "soft power", across much of the world. Because the world, including America's allies, will now see what a joke "that country's" military is. What lies America tells itself, and its allies. How "you" can't be relied upon. How utterly, utterly pathetic this whole debacle is. And how "your" president is a useless, lying, untrustworthy, duplicitous, idiotic fuck.
Look, I never particularly LIKED Trump, but I fail to understand how ANYONE can look at the fall of Kabul this week, look at the WORST US foreign policy failure in more than 40 years, and not see this as worse than anything Trump ever directly did, perhaps even including fucking Yemen...
I just... Fuck this. It is a fucking disgrace, and there is no room to make light of it. Biden and Psaki, and everyone else involved, deserves to rot in hell for this. Blood is on their hands, and no one, American, Afghan, Chinese or otherwise, should ever forget or forgive that.
When Trump said to withdraw from the Middle East, I already knew it meant this would happen. Despite that, I DO SUPPORT the withdrawal with the implicit understanding it meant bloodshed will happen in 3rd world shitholes, a small cost for bringing Americans home. This whole liberating the middle east from dictatorship nonsense has been bullshit from the start, it is a forced change, it is unnatural and goes against the cultural norms evolved in the region.
Do you think everybody there will still continue on as if nothing happened? What part no bases in the middle east do you not understand? What part of no more NATO support do you not get? There is no magic Kumbayah decision after forcing changes and then suddenly leaving.
All these whining coming from people who are against US foreign intervention looks like a bunch of NPCs upset that no foreign intervention meant exactly that, foreigners can do as they please in their own territory, including all those things that are supposedly evil and shouldn't be done.
The whining from people who support US foreign intervention is at least understandable. The institutional push back against Trump to withdraw from the middle east had the military hiding units instead of actually withdrawing and starting bombing runs again in early 2021.
What I am uncertain of is the whole media blitz campaign now on Afghanistan, which is likely a distraction for how terrible the US domestic policy is right now, and that trillion dollar bill that congress is trying to pass. It is also possible this is a test to gauge the public interest in a new middle eastern adventure, repackaged and resold as a humanitarian interest story, slightly different than the last, or to excuse the ramping up of mass immigration into the west, while screaming into the sky about covid restrictions on the locals.