Comments by "TaichiStraightlife" (@TaichiStraightlife) on "Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - July 11th, 2021" video.

  1. I remember the South Vietnamese troops stripping off their uniforms on the battlefield and running away in their underwear: once again, history rhymes.
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  2.  @Ryanboy2020  - Yes... while I wasn't in Vietnam myself, I kept up with the news, as Vietnam was a monster that ate up generations, the seminal fact of my young life.
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  3.  @Ryanboy2020  - While I'm not exactly sure what you're on about, I can only assume that not only do I not agree with it, but that you obviously have no idea what I believe, though you seem to think you do, especially with your patronizing and conspiratorial air. In short, I remember the rapid fall of South Vietnam (a war that consumed all of us, in one way or another). The South Vietnamese government had no legitimacy among the people in S.V.; we'd been propping them up for ages, and when we left they collapsed like a house of cards. I see the same thing here. Your assumption that I'm somehow misled, and that somehow YOU know the real story is frankly offensive. Your suggestion that somehow I should only "do your research and reevaluate your assessment" and that somehow the scales will fall from my eyes, even without regard to the work of trained reporters for the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post etc. is a joke that reminds one of the MAGA rant about news sources being "enemies of the people". I've been to Afghanistan; it's a complex place with many different tribes and clans (Pashtun, Hazara, Uzbeks) and languages like Pashto and Dari and dialects of Farsi and Urdu, none of which I speak, so pardon me; when I have cancer I don't go to "natural healers" (see: Steve Jobs ), I go to MD.s; and when I want information I read the experts. There was zero chance that we'd succeed in nation building in Afghanistan, especially with the back door that Pakistan provided the Taliban (and also North Vietnam provided for the Viet Cong). There comes a time and it's now, after 20 years, when the Afghani army has to simply stand or fall on its own. They seem to be choosing to fall. I'm truly sorry for the women of Afghanistan... but don't blame us; blame their armed men who are collapsing everywhere without a bullet being fired in many cases, and simply handing over their arms and ammunition (paid for by American taxpayers) to the Taliban.
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  4.  @Ryanboy2020  - First, heal thyself, "doc"
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  5. Most officeholders (Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney and a few others aside) believe that assuring their own re-election is the most important issue facing the Republic at any one time... so of course, following that thinking, they're always lickspittles at heart who'll pay any moral or financial price to assure that outcome, regardless of what they have to do or say they believe anything that the base believes.
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  6. Especially good show today...
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