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Old 08-31-2021, 06:43 PM   #188 (permalink)
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One would imagine that if they thought it would have been as much of an optical disaster as it has become, that they would've delayed the withdrawal further to a time in which they were more prepared. That all of course assumes that the people on the ground were feeding accurate information back to the administration and being generally competent. Part of me thinks that people in the administration really wanted this to happen in time for the "20th anniversary of 9/11". If it did not become as much of a cluster**** as it has, and no American died, it could've been a rather easy optical success for Biden. Right now, he's looking more like Gerald Ford (Vietnam/Saigon) than Eisenhower (Korean War).
So after 20 years of incompetence the competence was supposed to start now? Focusing on the withdrawal honestly feels like copium so people don't have to deal with the sheer weight of a 20 year abject failure that indicts the entire country. No, it's just this one guy's failure in this particular moment so let's focus on that and not think about how much America sucks.
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