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.
The American people don't want to be the world police. It's not voted for, the politicians all play games with us. The political parties have each played both sides of the overseas war argument for decades now and still all go off and do whatever the hell they want. I don't think there's been a war with widespread support among the American public since World War 2.
I'd certainly have chosen a better way to leave than the Harris administration. Perhaps kept the airbase for one, since it was already built and really stupid to abandon. Leave a bit slower and try to strength up whatever local force was built (if any) such that it doesn't totally go to shit right off. But stay in these places for eternity to protect them from their own choices? No thanks.
Sometimes the only way to end a shit situation is for those most affected to stand up and figure out how to take care of it themselves. Yes, that means some of them will give their lives. The ones that are being rescued over the last 20 years, why are they just going about their business with someone else providing the safety? Why haven't they joined up to help put down the threat to their country? They are totally happy having someone else do it all for them.
There wasn't any support, the public was completely against it. But fdr's thoroughly commie infested administration kept pushing for it and he agreed since he was always an authoritarian technocrat pinko.
So he did the whole "I'm not touching you" thing by acting like an asshole to both germany and japan until they fucking had enough.
Allegedly he got advanced warning of pearl harbor and just let it happen because he knew a massacre would bring the US into the war.
Yeah, I should have thought of that as well. I knew they wanted nothing to do with it early on, but it's easy to forget how much politics played with getting Germany and Japan dragging the US into it. Particularly since we're never thought that. Even 25 years ago when I was in school FDR was portrayed in school as a perfect saint.
So I'd have to go all the way back then, as I'm not sure there's ever been support among the American public for a foreign war.