Bobby, back up several months first. Once it was seen how the Taliban was making moves (as reported on some media outlets that weren't focused on just the pandemic), plans should have changed, communication to the Taliban should have been tough and with meaning. I'm not a military expert, nor have I been privy to all of the intelligence the past 9 months, but I see the result and it is a disaster. I can't read or play music but I know when a performance sucks and when the performers are out of their league.Bob78164 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:45 pmDo you have a clue how long that would take? Because just getting the people out, much less the equipment, is going to take months, and that's cramming thousands of people at a time into our largest planes.tlynn78 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:17 pmFor starters, get civilians, allies and weaponry out BEFORE the military.
Forget stock in burquas - I'm buying stock in chiropractic practices. The gymnastics you peeps on the left will need to do to justify Sleepy Joe's 'presidency' will make that a bull market.
You might want to check out what Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer said after returning from Afghanistan. Both of them changed their mind as a result of that trip. They had thought President Biden should delay our departure until after August 31. Once they actually saw the facts on the ground, they concluded that there was no way to make the evacuation work without cooperation from the Taliban, and the price of that cooperation would be leaving on August 31.
President Biden assumed (based on intelligence estimates that we'll probably never see) that the Afghan government would hold Kabul long enough to make the process more orderly. When Donny negotiated the withdrawal, I don't recall anyone here predicting that the Afghan government would collapse in a matter of days.
So if you want to take the extra months and months necessary to get all of that done, understand it's going to happen at the price of additional American casualties because the Taliban would resume shooting at us. Is that a price you're willing to ask American soldiers to pay? President Biden decided it wasn't. So what would we gain that you think is worth the extra American deaths we would have paid?
Like I said, carping is easy. Solutions are hard. --Bob
Americans are dead and Americans are trapped. Even Biden says the buck stops with him (first truthful thing he's said in years).
We lost 4 servicemen in Afghanistan last year. 4 in 366 days.