Originally Posted by
MadMojoMonkey
IDK what getting out of Afghanistan was supposed to look like, and I don't know how much of what is blamed on Biden is a logistically solvable problem. Presumably, he took the advice of the generals as far as how to go about what needed to be done.
It was/is a shitshow, but it was going to be that no matter who was POTUS at the time, and it's been 20 years of getting nothing for our investment and no other POTUS had the wherewithal to admit as much and do something about it. Of course the political fallout is bad. And Biden gets the fingers of blame pointed at him because those before him covered up the shitshow. Biden admitted to the shitshow, and gets the blame.
I mean... he did have a hand in starting it, if memory serves.
I'm not saying Biden is good, but anyone's better than Trump. It's shitty, but true when he said his responsibility isn't to the Afghan people, but to Americans. His job isn't to free Afghanistan or save them from the Taliban. He can choose to try that if he wants, but that's not his job. It's shitty, but that's the world we live in. Self-interest is cruel, but rational.