Comments by "Fred A" (@freda2758) on "Biden stands by decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan by Aug. 31 deadline" video.

  1. As long as we get them out. That's all I care about.
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  2. When he invites them to Camp Pendleton on 9/11 like the last administration, let me know.
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  3.  @mrkemrk  Hard to have any real plan when we only had 2,000 troops left after the last administration pulled out 15,000! And then the people we trained for 20 years just gave up! Their President fled the country. What would your genius plan had been, given these circumstances? Sneak out? Move our equipment one piece at a time? What would have been the better plan that WOULD NOT have triggered exactly what we're seeing? Let's look at it: Say their deadline was December, and we started moving people out at the beginning of this month. Who goes first? Americans? The bulk of our people? What do you think would have happened then? To you think the Afghanistan army would have stayed in place and held the line? How about this: same deadline, but instead of people, we decided to move the bulk of our equipment out because we anticipated their army would fold. So, there's very little left behind for the Taliban to fight with, but do you think people like you would have accused America of leaving the Afghan people to die? Be honest. Where it all fell apart was pulling 15,000 troops out and leaving a shell of a force behind to do the cleanup. The last administration knew it wasn't returning, and set out to destroy as much as possible. That's what we're dealing with.
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  4.  @mrkemrk  Pulling 15,000 troops out of a hostile area, on your way out of office, essentially scorching the earth, was the ugliness decision of all.
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  5. By hastily pulling 15,000 troops out and leaving barely 2,000 behind to cleanup the mess, the last administration essentially pour cement down the toilet. His actions ensued there would be no way to recover the damage without it costing something. In this case, it may people lives. He knew he we were not going to allow him another four years to wreck our democracy, so he set out to make cleaning up behind him as painful as possible. It is tragic, but we will get through this; otherwise, trump and his terrorists win.
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  6.  @mrkemrk  And yet, that's exactly what trump did. I'm glad you agree with me that he was incompetent. He should have never gotten into ooffice.He was unfit for leadership.
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  7. If the Taliban doesn't want their middle class to leave, they might want to reconsider some of their humanitarian positions. People don't want to be oppressed. Stop doing that. Allow people to have their freedoms. Stop oppressing people.
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