Blair speaks the truth.
Link: Tony Blair Says 'Imbecilic' Afghanistan Withdrawal Has 'Every Jihadist Group Cheering'
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Prayers to you and family as you deal with Henri. Some of us care. I do.
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connect to the withdrawal from Afghanistan???
You don’t care about 3TK. If you did you would have posted something.
Libs only care about communism.
like you should have picked up on that ;-).
Oh, and his post had absolutely nothing to do with Hurricane Henri...of which you are always free to start a thread on...
just because a stray thought enters your head doesn't mean you should voice it in any context...that's not a good look for someone trying to impress others with their "wisdom".
You don’t give a shit about anything but communism. Very sad.
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...neighborhood are that it was much less severe than anticipated .
Lot of the locals were concerned before cause they got walloped by one back in 91.
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Big Iraq war champion, remember.
Things are totally chaotic right now…but it seems to me that it could be MUCH worse. The Taliban is acting with restraint…it could be a major nightmare.
Obviously we should have been getting civilians out sooner. Obviously.
And that is saying something.
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"Victory has many Fathers...Defeat is an orphan". Both sides knew that withdrawal was the right decision or they would have screamed loudly back in 2020. The exit process isn't going well for the Afghanis, so that overlooked part of the 2020 deal is what is causing both Houses of Parliament to seek cover...(btw...that 'overlooked' part was the responsibility of the negotiators).
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/58271943
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"Blair also said that Britain and the U.S. have a "moral obligation" to stay in Afghanistan until everyone who needs to be evacuated is safely taken out.
"We must evacuate and give sanctuary to those to whom we have responsibility — those Afghans who helped us and stood by us and have a right to demand we stand by them," he said. "There must be no repetition of arbitrary deadlines. We have a moral obligation to keep at it until all those who need to be are evacuated. And we should do so not grudgingly but out of a deep sense of humanity and responsibility."
Donald Trump's negotiated exit plan, as best I can find, had absolutely zero provisions for 'evacuating and sanctuary' of Afghani citizens...thus, the crisis we are looking at on all the news broadcasts...no Special Visas with 13 month processing taken care of, and no pre-arranged agreements with other countries to provide refuge for them...Biden's admin had to start from 'Square One' on Jan. 20th...simple as that.
to Biden's credit, he got four more months to address this issue...could he have gotten more?...need to ask the Taliban if they would have been happy to stop their advances...stop hunting Afghanis who had helped us the last 20 years...with only 2,500 U.S. troops in country thanks to Trump, it's hard to put any fear in the Taliban.
BTW, given Trump's 'table setting', how would you have orchestrated the withdrawal?...don't forget the Taliban is an active player here.
Trumps plan may have been a disaster…only people like you care at this point.
Biden undid the border, undid XL pipeline. He was not beholden to Trump’s agreement. Trump is gone 7 months. This show is Joe’s. He owns it and the people know it…much as you try to squirm.
this exit plan/preparation...or, lack thereof...from Afghanistan (remember...he made and signed the deal on behalf of "America") there's not much else I can say to you.
Please start another thread if you'd like to discuss the XL pipeline or the border situation...but please, not both at once.
mismanaged withdrawal. Biden has been forced to own it...as are you as his faithful supporter through every misstep.
Biden was not beholden to Trump's agreement and he has been in office for 7 months. He set the deadline for the withdrawal and he blew it in embarrassing and dangerous fashion for all to see.
We can expect the I don’t give a shit attitude of Orange and his merry thugs and whiskey stealers.
Rather more shocking when it’s embraced by someone who sold himself and team as the pros in foreign affairs and who purports to care about how we should consider and handle such things.
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Which shows you how bad this issue is, because on other issues they have been willing to do that.
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