Afghanistan Megathread

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's not about what biden cant get through the senate.

It's the cacophony of disasters that follow each one of his failures that is the problem.

Right, there's a choir willing and eager to make bad scary noise about everything he does or doesn't do. Doesn't have much to do with the political reality, they should be ignored. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

I mean just like trump made it easy for me to hate him biden does it too.

Its not like only 1 side of that religion has a choir.

[Ooloo]

Originally Posted by Whale biologist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Right, there's a choir willing and eager to make bad scary noise about everything he does or doesn't do. Doesn't have much to do with the political reality, they should be ignored. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So he has no culpability for his actual decision making as the literal president? Even *democrats* agree he totally fucked up afghanistan. Then he claims "the buck stops with me" while trying to pass the buck. He's a completely incompetent senile failure and it's only been 8 months. I'm sure as he gets older and more senile he'll finally start making those sharp cunning decisions. Without Trump in the whitehouse after all, the "adults" are back lmao.

Trump, the blowhard reality TV billionaire, is more of an adult than Biden. Sad.

[JurisDictum]

Alright you gonna have to put your big boy pants on and try to keep up with me for this one:

The world is often a dangerous place filled with violent deranged poor people. Sometimes in our power games competing with other empires we deal with less than desirable groups -- like angry Islamic militants.

For example, we used a group of angry Islamic militants known as the Taliban to fight Soviet Russia. We then were attacked by a peripheral group in Afghanistan that the Taliban didn't want to give up (Al-Qaeda / Osama Bin Laden). So we allied with warlords out there that molested underage boys (its just "boy fun" don't talk about it), and corrupt metropolitan assholes like Karzai against the Taliban.

It turns out that Karzai is a useless asshole. When we needed help killing ISIS off, we used the Taliban because guys like Karzai are about as useful as a hole in our wallet. We don't think either of these guys are good. But ISIS is a real threat so we work with the bad men...you see? America sometimes needs to accept the world as it is and we need to work with people in charge we don't like.

So Biden (or Trump if he won) has to work with the Taliban moving foreword -- not because he personally likes him, but because we need them to work with us against terrorists moving foreword. Karzai wasn't an option and nothing Biden (or Trump) did would make it so.

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by Ooloo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So he has no culpability for his actual decision making as the literal president? Even *democrats* agree he totally fucked up afghanistan. Then he claims "the buck stops with me" while trying to pass the buck. He's a completely incompetent senile failure and it's only been 8 months. I'm sure as he gets older and more senile he'll finally start making those sharp cunning decisions. Without Trump in the whitehouse after all, the "adults" are back lmao.

Trump, the blowhard reality TV billionaire, is more of an adult than Biden. Sad.

Yeah that kind of malarkey is why I tune you out, son. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Culpable is fine, but cogent criticism please.

[Jibartik]

Trump is satan, Biden is an angry man.

Satan is more interesting.

Although Obama is the one that made the death car they ride in and named it The Beast so 666 is really the chair not the one sitting in it.

[Topgunben]

Can someone please explain to me why we left all our military equipment for the Taliban instead of destroying it?

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by Topgunben [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can someone please explain to me why we left all our military equipment for the Taliban instead of destroying it?

We plan to let them use it in exchange for killing anti-American terrorists. We probably plan to arm them further moving foreword to maintain influence over Afghanistan rather than let China get all the mineral wealth for themselves. Also Heroin.

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by Topgunben [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can someone please explain to me why we left all our military equipment for the Taliban instead of destroying it?

Probley in the deal Trump made with the Taliban in exchange for a bloodless egress. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Topgunben]

Originally Posted by Whale biologist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Probley in the deal Trump made with the Taliban in exchange for a bloodless egress. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

seems like a bad idea