All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[PwrdOn]

Bush's I vision of Iraq had nothing to do with Bin Laden. We can go back to Bush's wrong steps for all of this. Not that American policy has been kosher.

And the invasion of Iraq was proceeded by the first Gulf War, which was fallout from the Iran-Iraq war, which was triggered by the Iranian revolution of 1979, which in turn was a reaction to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew their democratically elected government in 1953. Whatever the contentions in our domestic politics, our foreign policy blunders are usually the result of a bipartisan consensus, building upon a stellar track record consisting of decades and decades of failed policies.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Didn't Trump say he would get rid ISIS in six months?

Sure he did, but, if pressed on it, he’ll lie out his ass and claim he never said that.

Meanwhile, as for Biden, all he can do is stay the course, proceed with the evacuations, then get the hell out without any more casualties.

[BeastieRunner]

[AnakinFlair]

Looks like ISIS is claiming responsibility for the bombings today.

[Kirby101]

And the invasion of Iraq was proceeded by the first Gulf War, which was fallout from the Iran-Iraq war, which was triggered by the Iranian revolution of 1979, which in turn was a reaction to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew their democratically elected government in 1953. Whatever the contentions in our domestic politics, our foreign policy blunders are usually the result of a bipartisan consensus, building upon a stellar track record consisting of decades and decades of failed policies.

Not untrue.

[Spidey5640]

Completely predictable outcome. Completely avoidable if done properly. Completely on Joe Biden. Defend, deflect all you want. This. Is. On. BIDEN. God Bless those who have paid the price for his incompetence.

[Spidey5640]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...vacuate-506957

Just when you think his incompetence reached its limits...

[PwrdOn]

Completely predictable outcome. Completely avoidable if done properly. Completely on Joe Biden. Defend, deflect all you want. This. Is. On. BIDEN. God Bless those who have paid the price for his incompetence.

Okay and? Trying to score cheap political points for short term electoral benefit instead of rationally assessing decades of foreign policy failures just goes to show you how much all of these "patriots" really care about the country. It won't be long before the next Republican president goes charging headlong into the next war having learned nothing from this experience, because naturally everything was Biden's fault and the party affiliation of the president matters a lot more than the military realities on the ground.

[green_garnish]

Completely predictable outcome. Completely avoidable if done properly. Completely on Joe Biden. Defend, deflect all you want. This. Is. On. BIDEN. God Bless those who have paid the price for his incompetence.

Given the completely predictable outcome and the obvious way it could have been avoided, I'm sure you won't mind sharing what the plan should have been.

[PwrdOn]

Given the completely predictable outcome and the obvious way it could have been avoided, I'm sure you won't mind sharing what the plan should have been.

Okay, so here's the plan, we send in a platoon of our absolute cream of the crop special forces soldiers, and then just they just go in guns blazing like Rambo, a film that happened to be dedicated to the "brave mujahideen of Afghanistan" but that's neither here nor there, blasting anyone who even looks at them funny with bullets laced with pigs blood, so they don't get the 72 virgins in heaven you see, and rescuing all the cute blonde American journalists, who perhaps in a moment of brief clarity while clinging to the massively sculpted arms of our DEVGRU Gigachad, may just reconsider her role in spreading liberal Marxist SJW fake news propaganda for the antifa Biden deep state.

[Kirby101]

Dupe post.

[Kirby101]

Completely predictable outcome. Completely avoidable if done properly. Completely on Joe Biden. Defend, deflect all you want. This. Is. On. BIDEN. God Bless those who have paid the price for his incompetence.

Yes once Trump made the deal with the Taliban and released 5000 Taliban fighters, it was predictable.
Here's what you are probably unaware of, Trump left only 2500 armed service personnel in Afghanistan. So what plan has 2500 troops secure a city of 4 million people while evacuating 100,000?
Love to hear the Trump plan, which had everyone out by May.

[green_garnish]

All right, bring everybody back to Afghanistan.

“To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden said in an address to the nation early Thursday evening. “I will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command.”

By Erin Cunningham, Rachel Pannett, Ellen Francis, Karoun Demirjian, John Hudson and Paulina Villegas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...-live-updates/

[babyblob]

In more GOP bullsittery there are a few calls for the Capital Police Officer to face charges for shooting that woman. Saying if a white cop is arrested for killing an unarmed black man a black cop needs to be arrested for killing an unarmed white woman.

[Spidey5640]

Okay and? Trying to score cheap political points for short term electoral benefit instead of rationally assessing decades of foreign policy failures just goes to show you how much all of these "patriots" really care about the country. It won't be long before the next Republican president goes charging headlong into the next war having learned nothing from this experience, because naturally everything was Biden's fault and the party affiliation of the president matters a lot more than the military realities on the ground.

As I said - Deflect, forget about the deaths