Comments by "life is a carnival" (@lifeisacarnival1359) on "Biden convinced Putin has decided to invade Ukraine" video.

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  66.  @peterg6715  You're wrong on several counts. 1)There was no Congressional vote on invading Afghanistan. The 2001Authorization to Use Military Force was directed toward all terrorists and specifically those involved in 911. Every member of Congress except one voted for it. No specific countries were mentioned. 2) Saying we never should have been in Afghanistan is also incorrect. The initial objective was to capture bin laden and drive out the Taliban. Bush pulled out prematurely before either of those objectives was achieved, stupidly deciding to focus troops and overall effort on Iraq. That worked out so well. 3)Trump made his deal with the Taliban in April 2020, 16 months before the actual withdrawal. In that time period, under Trump's deal, the arms embargo on the Taliban was lifted, so that for over a year they were able to purchase as many weapons as they wanted. They were also allowed under Trump's deal to resume working with al qaeda, which resulted in their ability to take over more and more of the country before Biden even took office, especially as Trump, under his deal, cut US troops. Speaking of that, Trump made his final troop cut after he lost the election, reducing the number of US troops to 2500. Under his deal he agreed to the release of twice that many Taliban from prison, so that they could join the thousands of Taliban already outnumbering US troops in the country. It's almost as if Trump was TRYING to strengthen the Taliban's position and weaken the US position. He certainly accomplished that. HIs only objective in getting out of Afghanistan was to use the withdrawal in his re-election campaign. "Look I got us out and got our boys home". He didnt give a shit what a mess he left things in, just as he didnt care when he abandoned the Kurds in Syria. Trump 's deal with the Taliban put the US in a weak, untenable, unwinnable position. All Biden could have done differently when he took office was to scrap the deal, replace the troops Trump had withdrawn, and added more troops to undo the damage Trump's deal did in terms of allowing the Taliban to get stronger, better armed, and control more of the country. How would that have gone over with Americans, implying that we were going to be in Afghanistan for years more of fighting to undo the strengthening of the Taliban that Trump's deal allowed? Even if he had said he was putting back enough troops to secure the withdrawal, many Americans would have responded with "Look, Trump was getting us out and now Biden is getting us back in." Trump left a mess, as he did so many times, and somebody else had to deal with it. Lazy, fat ass Trump did the same thing when faced with any major foreign policy decision. He blew it off and took the easy way out. He ignored Syria and let Asad and Russia have it; he ignored and abandoned Ukraine because they wouldnt fabricate dirt on Biden and let Russia get in a position to threaten what they're threatening now; he said NK was no longer a nuclear threat after his worthless summits, which NK followed up by increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal to its biggest ever. He was a foreign policy disaster, and Afghanistan is just one example of it. But he did achieve those Middle East peace treaties-- between countries that have never been at war. What a fucking dumbass POS fraud.
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  68.  @peterg6715  How do you have a peace deal when the countries involved aren't at war? It's not a step toward anything because the Palestinan issue wasn't addressed in any way. The countries involved may reap some trade and other benefits, but that has nothing to do with "peace in the Middle East.". As far as Afghanistan, I'm not defending Biden as much as I'm attacking Trump. He made a terrible deal with the Taliban and as I've already said he had one objective-- getting out and getting re-elected. Typical Trump-- lazy, short-sighted, sloppy and poorly done. And as always, he didn't give a shit as long as he got what he wanted. As far as Ukraine, we're fulfilling our obligations as they've been laid out for years. There is no connection between the Afghanistan withdrawal and what is going on in Ukraine. "These people"? "Leaders " of both parties have made colossal foreign policy mistakes over the years. As I see it, the two biggest foreign policy blunders in history were getting mired in Vietnam and invading Iraq. Democrats were largely responsible for Vietnam, and Republicans were largely responsible for Iraq. The difference is that while both wars were needless, the US could just walk away from Vietnam while the Iraq debacle did serious damage that will last for decades. As far as Ukraine, who knows what will happen. But the US role in it is not nearly as stupid and misguided as the disasters in Vietnam and Iraq. If you want to start pointing fingers on foreign policy, the US has been fucking around and fucking up , under both parties, since WWII.
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