Perch wrote:
Tell you what, I will gladly retract my criticism of Biden checking his watch during the ceremony on a couple conditions: 1) that I can find a video of the event that confirms the USA Today claim. and 2) you agree to publicly admit that Biden lied when he said he would not pull US troops out until ALL Americans were out who wanted to get out. I know you'll want to do this since you have such a deep, unabiding interest in the truth. You're insistence on the truth will probably compel you to admit Biden lied regardless of whether I admit I was wrong but I'll lave that up to you. Do we have a deal?
Deal.
I'm one of the only ones on here who have called it liked it is. While I voted for Biden, I am extremely unhappy with what has happened in Afghanistan. Taking troops out was the right decision and while I acknowledge that there could never be a smooth withdrawal, the way this went down was beyond expected and acceptable. Biden must shoulder the blame for a large majority of it. And what bothers me the most is that we played politics with our people's lives. We still have people there who want out. I don't care what it would have taken, nothing, NOTHING is more important than getting our people out. Let's not even talk about the many Afghanis who helped us who are now being left there to die. The idea that "we didn't know it would have gone this bad this quickly" is an admission of incompetence. You have access to the greatest intelligence in the world. They couldn't predict that government officials would flee and the Afghan military would just fold? How about all the military equipment left behind for the Taliban?
I'm not like most of the left-leaning folk in here. I can readily admit that Joe is nowhere near as sharp as he was even a year ago and based on what I've seen he shouldn't be anything more than a one term President. Don't get me twisted though, I firmly believe the previous administration was historically bad and many of us ran to and voted for Biden because we wanted "anything other than Trump."