Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Acosta: This is what really riles up Fox audience about Afghanistan" video.

  1. While the Talibanization of Afghanistan is of concern, of far greater concern is the Talibanization of America by Reich-wing plutocrats, Reich-wing media, Reich-wing demagogues, Reich-wing politicians and Christian nationalists.
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  2. It's back to the Dark Ages for Afghanistan, and back to the Taliban reign of terror for the Afghani people. But Biden bears little responsibility for what is happening now in Afghanistan; he was stuck in a Catch-22 situation with no good choices left to be made. What needs to be studied and rectified is how it came to that point, rather than just trying to scapegoat onto the current U.S. President the inevitable results of two decades of bad policies, which is counterproductive and unlikely to accomplish anything.
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  3. 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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  4. Not everyone. It's really only the fascist Republican cult, who could care less about the humanitarian aspect, don't even want Afghan refugees coming here, and are just trying to score political points in their typical depraved fashion. Most others are taking a much more nuanced view. Some in the MSM at first were too quick to blame, ignoring those nuances, but (outside of disreputable Reich-wing media, of course) it appears coverage is becoming much more objective after the initial hysteria. Otherwise, the quote is a very succinct and spot-on summation hammering home the stark truth of the situation. Glad you posted it.
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  5. Welcome to war. This is what war is. It's terrible, it's tragic, it's ugly, it stinks, it's unfair, it's sad, it's wasteful, it's hell, innocents die, and things always go wrong. You think we'd have learned that by now, but no, it's a lesson that has to be repeatedly learned, evidently. The consensus is that nobody foresaw the Afghan government and its armed forces completely capitulating so quickly as they did. Some say there should have been a contingency plan for this, but even though hindsight is 20/20, have yet to hear any rational plan that could have dealt with this situation. Shit happens, and Biden got handed a turd with Afghanistan. Instead of allowing the crap to continue, Biden made the hard, responsible decision to pull the U.S. out of another country's civil war. Fallout was inevitable, and Republicans trying to capitalize on that politically or media trying to profit from it is truly degenerate.
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  6. Taliban: 'We're not indoctrinated barbaric religious terrorists! We're just Afghanistan's Republican party!"
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