As I've said several times in threads going back years, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but Biden's response to this situation has pushed me beyond anger. His response so far can be characterized as the infamous two-dude criminal defense: "Some other dude done it." The fact is, that fatuous ass Pompeo and his moronic boss set up this disaster, but then Biden didn't walk away when he could have. He didn't have to point fingers at everyone but himself. He could have taken charge. He is absolutely not a "the buck stops here" guy. He absolutely could have made all kinds of (good) excuses for pulling out of the disastrous Trump/Pompeo deal -- including simply saying Pompeo's deal was criminally bad. Robert Gates, maybe the best U.S. Defense Secretary in half a century, appointed by Bush II and kept on by Obama (there's a recommendation for you) said that Joe Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." And here's another one to add to the list.
I get sick when I think of the massacres to come. And people crying about American lives lost in a pointless war should think about the fact that no American troops were killed in combat since February of 2020 -- combat was virtually over, but the American presence kept the Taliban at bay. And keeping the Taliban at bay served (IMHO) a serious purpose -- I think the modern world is catching up with Afghanistan (and Pakistan and Iran, and Syria) and that sooner or later, the Taliban would simply have become irrelevant. They might have continued as a terrorist group, but not as a government. Now, we're going to get another Iran.
Further, I'm afraid as the disaster grows, Biden will have made more likely the possibility of a Republican comeback in 2024, with all the racist, anti-democratic, anti-science Trumpkin bs that they've tied themselves to in the last six years.
