Taliban spiking the football
I think the USA is now Owen 13 since their back to back world war championships.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/afghanistan-us-urges-citizens-to-leave-immediately-as-taliban-nears-kabul.html
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Saw on Twitter that Biden was able to do what Obama and Trump couldn't do. Get out
Its true. Obama was afraid to be the guy that lost Afghanistan. Trump would have been impeached. Again. For abandoning our allies in Afghanistan
Joe gets a pass. He's not Trump
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Sounds like we should send some troops there.
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Hell. Obama said Afghanistan was the “real war” and we needed to increase troops there when he ran for office in 2008.RaceBannon said:Saw on Twitter that Biden was able to do what Obama and Trump couldn't do. Get out
Its true. Obama was afraid to be the guy that lost Afghanistan. Trump would have been impeached. Again. For abandoning our allies in Afghanistan
Joe gets a pass. He's not Trump
Nothing else matters
After he was elected, he announced when they would be withdrawn after it took him months to decide how many to add. -
Perhaps, sending more of our Humvees to the Taliban to expedite things would be more pleasing to you.MelloDawg said:Sounds like we should send some troops there.
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is furiously trying to re-establish negotiations with the Taliban.
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Biden is also helped because his opponents aren't massive hypocrites like @HHusky
I'm not going to say we should stay or go depending on who is in office
Trump would want to pull troops and the left would start screaming about the Kurds
Afghanistan was doomed. If they aren't ready after 20 years they never will be
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I’m old enough to remember Dems saying they were against going into Iraq, but supported going into Afghanistan - “Graveyard of Empires”trublue said:
Hell. Obama said Afghanistan was the “real war” and we needed to increase troops there when he ran for office in 2008.
After he was elected, he announced when they would be withdrawn after it took him months to decide how many to add. -
See “Remarks of Senator Obama:
The War We Need to Win”
Washington, DC
August 1, 2007
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/26/808280/- -
He's begging them not to take the embassytrublue said:
Perhaps, sending more of our Humvees to the Taliban to expedite things would be more pleasing to you.
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is furiously trying to re-establish negotiations with the Taliban.
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Obama never said that.trublue said:See “Remarks of Senator Obama:
The War We Need to Win”
Washington, DC
August 1, 2007
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/26/808280/-
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Tribal shithole. Always has been and will be until the end of time.RaceBannon said:Biden is also helped because his opponents aren't massive hypocrites like @HHusky
I'm not going to say we should stay or go depending on who is in office
Trump would want to pull troops and the left would start screaming about the Kurds
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A part of Obama and the Democratic Party’s position in 2008 was winning the “real war” in Afghanistan . . .
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Apparently, you didn’t bother to look at the link. It outlines statements he made as a senator as far back as 2007; in the debates against McCain; his stated foreign policy positions related to Afghanistan and Iraq, etc. during the 2008 campaign.doogie said: -
A lot of people attribute things to Obama he never said.
I remember watching a video of him not saying the same thing. -
Why does the US need to care about Afghanistan? Let the Taliban run wild. It was always dumb and a lost cause.
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Link?doogie said:A lot of people attribute things to Obama he never said.
I remember watching a video of him not saying the same thing.
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We could have/ should have done the same thing a long time ago.RoadDawg55 said:Why does the US need to care about Afghanistan? Let the Taliban run wild. It was always dumb and a lost cause.
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I agree. Unfortunately, Obama doubled down on stupid in the 2008 election by calling the Afghanistan battlefield, the “real war” and increased troop deployments there.RoadDawg55 said:Why does the US need to care about Afghanistan? Let the Taliban run wild. It was always dumb and a lost cause.
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I think “good war” was the term being floated around. Not the dumb war in Iraq that Bush had. But the good one intrublue said:A part of Obama and the Democratic Party’s position in 2008 was winning the “real war” in Afghanistan . . .
Saudi ArabiaAfghanistan where the 9/11 terrorist came from. -
But the kurdssssssssssssssssMelloDawg said:Sounds like we should send some troops there.
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Heard that bullshit for 4 years from Owl and other idiots. Bush took his eye off the ball, the "real" WOT was in Afghanistan and once tough guy Obama got in there they were going to start kicking ass in the real war.trublue said:
Hell. Obama said Afghanistan was the “real war” and we needed to increase troops there when he ran for office in 2008.
After he was elected, he announced when they would be withdrawn after it took him months to decide how many to add. -
Great heroin though, can’t wait for the prices to dropRoadDawg55 said:Why does the US need to care about Afghanistan? Let the Taliban run wild. It was always dumb and a lost cause.
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Hey, he was running for President and didn't want to be tarred with the charge of being soft on terrorism. So he lied. It's not like his supporters cared.trublue said:
I agree. Unfortunately, Obama doubled down on stupid in the 2008 election by calling the Afghanistan battlefield, the “real war” and increased troop deployments there. -
The "good" and "real" WOT not the "blood for oil" war Bush got us into. Bush took his eye off the ball!!!MikeDamone said:
I think “good war” was the term being floated around. Not the dumb war in Iraq that Bush had. But the good one inSaudi ArabiaAfghanistan where the 9/11 terrorist came from. -
Is the the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban inevitable?
Our President responds . . .
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I can’t believe we gave up before getting CRT in Afghan schools.trublue said:
Hell. Obama said Afghanistan was the “real war” and we needed to increase troops there when he ran for office in 2008.
After he was elected, he announced when they would be withdrawn after it took him months to decide how many to add.
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3-0.MikeDamone said:2-0 vs world super powers.
I think the USA is now Owen 13 since their back to back world war championships.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/afghanistan-us-urges-citizens-to-leave-immediately-as-taliban-nears-kabul.html
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Imagine the press coverage if Trump was president during this withdrawal
It might be a little different
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Stop living in the past!Kaepsknee said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUUk6wVNrY
