Taliban taking over Afghanistan

[Methais]

Dude. I told you I was going to save you the trouble and reply for you.

What an ingrate.

[Ashliana]

Dude. I told you I was going to save you the trouble and reply for you.

What an ingrate.

Best of luck figuring out how the Internet works.

[Methais]

This is why you're returning to your cage when I get back.

[Ashliana]

REEEEEEE! I'd bought into my own fantasy about having the power to limit you to Tardbandit's meltdown thread! YOU CAN'T MOCK MY RETARDED POSITION IN ANOTHER THREAD! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

You'd better pivot to a new argument, Methais -- like "ACKSHULLY, you continuing to criticize me in other places was my plan all along! YOU FELL FOR IT! Y-yeah, that's it!" -- like you're usually forced to.

Stay triggered -- I'm sorry, Big Mad -- by your control issues.

[Seran]

So if Biden knew this would be a huge clusterfuck why not pull our diplomats, citizens, and military equipment out ahead of time before we withdrew instead of leaving all that there and claiming the Afghan army would keep it all safe? Biden failed, just admit it.

So you're expecting in seven months, what prior administration's have failed to accomplish in 20 years? That's not how that works. Commander and Chief decided enough was enough and moved forwarded with Trump's ineffectual promise to the Taliban to leave Afghanistan.

[Seran]

You mean Trump, who initiated the drawdown and was trying to end the war?

Again, you're welcome. Good thing we had such a forward thinking, anti-establishment, and resolute President to go against the military-industrial complex.

Biden had a "gimme" in the bag... but he's an idiot, and fucked it all up... as usual.

The best part of the whole speech... was him blaming Obama. LOL. Biden better watch it. Talk like that is liable to lead to an unfortunate accident on the White House stairs if Obama's minions have any say.

I'm sorry Trump initiated a draw down of 4,000 troops down to 2,500 in his four years, after having unilaterally agreeing with the Taliban a year and a half ago to leave Afghanistan within 14 months. Or did you forget that your orange man set all of this in motion February 2020.

[Taernath]

I don't believe we've ever brought most of the stuff back we sent over during deployments. It's cheaper to just leave it for whoever is supposed to be taking over. Since the ANA never took care of their stuff and the Taliban won't be getting replacement parts, it will mostly be inoperable in a couple months.

[Solkern]

Biden is 100% responsible for the shitty evacuation situation. He's 100% responsible for downplaying the Taliban threat and said it was impossible for them to take over. That's all on Biden and he needs to own it instead of blaming Trump and the intelligence community.

Link to Biden saying it was impossible for the Taliban to take over?

[Alfster]

I don't believe we've ever brought most of the stuff back we sent over during deployments. It's cheaper to just leave it for whoever is supposed to be taking over. Since the ANA never took care of their stuff and the Taliban won't be getting replacement parts, it will mostly be inoperable in a couple months.

Yup. Unfortunately we do that with dogs too, since they're considered property

[Tgo01]

Link to Biden saying it was impossible for the Taliban to take over?

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...akeover-highly

“The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army. They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability,” Biden said. “There's going to be no circumstances where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy in the United States from Afghanistan.”

“The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely,” Biden said.