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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    most everyone wanted out. that's not questioned. the manner of the withdrawal/rout is at issue
    We withdrew from one of the most unstable countries in the world after a near 20-year conflict with minimal casualties. We would have had to commit a minimum of 5,000 troops to keep Kabul secure - which surely would have led to MORE casualties.

    Conservatives also complain about the equipment left there - but again, we're likely adding to the body count if we tried to retrieve most of it, which was largely disabled or outdated anyway.

    Biden ended a war. That is rarely something that is all nice & neat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    some are some aren't dual citizens.
    Afghan withdrawal want just criticized by Republicans, our coalition partners all criticized it

    The campaign had little foreign policy debate.. the couple times Biden came out of the basement it was mostly on COVID

    I wont even get intot the horrid decision not to take operational control of Kabul (offered by the Taliban) pulling out military befor civilians. and pulling out contractors from Bagram -all before the Kabul evac

    Nato allies urge rethink on alliance after Biden’s ‘unilateral’ Afghanistan exit
    https://www.ft.com/content/3ea7e87e-...6-8061420942b0
    Germany, Britain, and Denmark were welcome to leave their troops in Afghanistan, instead of demanding we leave ours.

    If the Afghanistan withdrawal were actually the epic clusterfuck for the ages you claim it was, Republicans would have made it a major campaign issue.

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