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Originally Posted by Galactus
Like pulling out of Afghanistan hasn't been one of the few things that the left and right have agreed on for quite some time. Now most people are acting as if they haven't been demanding to bring the troops home for well over a decade.
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No. That's pretty stupid to say. No one is arguing about pulling the troops out (while I think if most Americans were to be asked if we should leave a small number like 1,000 to maintain some kind of supervisory presence while helping the Afghans maintain their own military they would say, "sure" -- we're in dozens of other countries including Syria, after all). The entire outcry now is HOW the troops are being pulled out, particularly at the cost of the American citizens that have been, continue to be, and will end up still stranded there when the self-imposed 8/31 deadline passes. Biden has a strange notion that protecting American citizens in Afghanistan might jeopardize the lives of soldiers... this is a very weird way of thinking. You can ask any soldier -- soldiers exist to PROTECT CITIZENS! It is their entire purpose, their
entire principle and reason for being. "No, we gotta bring the boys home! I don't want to see anyone else's sons or daughters die over there in the service!" Biden says, when like only 5 have died in the past 10 years (except for the last couple days... apparently a dozen Marines died trying to make the best of the last minute sh**show evacuation). More people died than that in combat exercises in the past 5 years.
There were many ways to avoid this, many steps that could have been taken. None were. Many lives have been lost, many more will be lost, and women are literally being yanked out of their homes and raped. Killed, if they refuse to feed Taliban troops.
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Originally Posted by IndigoErth
You got any sources besides Twitter?
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That is literally a video. Of the Taliban. With pallets full of millions of dollars all around them. Do you think it's a Deep Fake or something? Maybe the Jalals?