Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "'We are currently on a pace to finish by August 31' - President Biden on Afghanistan withdrawal" video.

  1. Trump excluded the Afghan government from peace negotiations with the Taliban, legitimizing the Taliban by making a separate peace deal with them and delegitimizing the government we worked so long and hard at so much cost to build and support, while releasing 5,000 Taliban prisoners and agreeing to withdraw all U.S. forces by May 1, 2021, guaranteeing failure. Moreover, Trump eviscerated the refugee program for Afghan and Iraqi allies visa programs, creating a huge backlog over several years. A federal judge even ruled Trump's delaying of those visas illegal. Furthermore, Trump abandoned are Kurdish allies in Syria and Iraq. Trump and Pompeo could hardly have screwed up our foreign policy any worse, and the damage they did will take decades to repair. But the Republican cult morons are too stupid to know and too stupid to care; they'll just deny and try to shift blame, as usual. Liz Cheney's right----it didn't have to happen this way: her father, Dick Cheney, and George Bush were responsible for the deterioration of affairs in Afghanistan by diverting troops and resources to conduct an illegal invasion of Iraq on the false premise of WMD and Iraq harboring terrorists. The situation in Afghanistan never recovered from that fatal mistake by Cheney and Bush; it allowed the Taliban to regroup and come back bigger and stronger than ever. Cheney and Bush's illegal war in Iraq also resulted in the emergence of ISIS.
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  2. Americans just got tired of too much "winning" in Afghanistan, but now Republicans are trying to profit politically and some in the press are trying to profit monetarily from the Biden blame game rather than holding the corrupt war profiteers, the corrupt politicians, the Afghanis and the Taliban accountable.
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  3. There has never been a graceful exit for the losing side in any war. Truth is, our hasty withdrawal from Vietnam was even worse if you look at the numbers and the whole picture. Only 7,000 were evacuated from Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, with many more left behind, including two dead American soldiers----the last to die in the Vietnam War----left behind in a hospital and not returned until a year later by the Vietnamese. That evacuation occurred under hostile NVA and Vietcong fire. Since August 14, over 70,000 have already been evacuated from Afghanistan despite the complete capitulation of the Afghan government and Afghan Army, with no hostile fire upon American troops by the Taliban so far. 75,000 have been evacuated since July. Moreover, the January 27, 1973 peace agreement signed by the Americans with the North Vietnamese ended all direct U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, and provided sixty days for troop removal. Just as with Afghanistan, all troops were removed. However, it was over two years later, on April 30, 1975, when the fall of Saigon occurred. So, the U.S. had nearly two-and-a-half years to evacuate everyone else before the fall of the South Vietnamese government and armed forces, instead of just the two weeks like in Afghanistan so far. The other thing in stark contrast between Vietnam and Afghanistan is that no Democrats----including Carter, who was running against Ford for President----tried to use the situation for political gain like Republicans are so desperately and depravedly doing now. That, despite the fact that it was the previous Trump administration which bears the brunt of the blame for the current situation.
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  4. Oh, my, look at all the Russian bots and fascist Republican trolls rooting against America, both intent on destroying our nation!
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  5. How many American civilians and Afghan allies did Traitor Trump get out of Afghanistan after he surrendered to the Taliban?
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