(08-18-2021, 08:54 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(08-18-2021, 06:00 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: Cognitive dissonance? First it looks like you're agreeing with me, then suddenly you take a hard left to get back to partisan blame. It's your choice what you want to believe, I'll believe that Biden made the right choice not to resume the war. We'll see if a bunch of American war contractors and state department people pay a price for no one foreseeing how little the trillions of dollars and thousands of American military lives lost bought, or if it just turns out to be another case of partisans losing their minds.

It's not partisan blame. It's pointing out incompetence on the part of the Biden administration. Biden could have taken steps to mitigate this outcome. He didn't. Just because we are pointing it out doesn't make it partisan.

In your case, L2l, I can believe it might be something aside from partisanship. For some people here, that belief is a bridge too far. Like I said, we'll see if it actually means anything. If no Americans lose their lives there and they extract most of the people who need asylum because they helped the USA then it didn't mean much.

Really what it comes down to is the people of Afghanistan either weren't willing to do, or unable to do what they had to do in order to preserve the way of life the USA helped establish there. I don't like it, but I accept it as the reality.

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