The U.K. or Canada or France or Germany etc. are free to take over Afghanistan. It's certainly within their military capacity. But you won't, will you? Somehow you think American lives are cheaper to expend than your own.
But I suppose hypocritically bitching from the sidelines, as if you weren't part of the coalition, is more emotionally satisfying.
The US never pledged to stay in Afghanistan forever. Our support was always time-limited. The mistake was letting it go this long.
The allies learned not to trust America when Trump shat all over NATO commitments, repeatedly sided with Russian intelligence over allied intelligence, and pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal among several other international commitments. 7 people from Trump's inner circle committed lying felonies associated with hiding their contacts with Russia. No ally could trust him. His own wives couldn't trust him. That's why Trump's international approval rating in allied countries was rock bottom - roughly 15% compared with 65-75% for Biden.
Trump didn't have the balls to do anything about Afghanistan and so he swept the problem under the rug and kicked the can down the road for the next administration to handle - because Trump is a pussy ass narcissist bitch more worried about his own image than committing our troops to die for a pointless cause. That's why America fired him. Biden pledged to leave Afghanistan during the campaign and before the election. Biden won. Promises kept.
You mad bro? Russia Russia Russia!
How does it feel? You voted for the elder abuse of placing a senile old man at the head of the government and commander in chief of the most powerful country in the world. A man of low achievement and intellect, a known plagiarist who graduated 76th in a class of 85 at university. A man who on his best day in government over roughly the past 50 years has been known by his peers to be an incompetent idiot of low moral fiber and conviction.
The mistake was staying in Afghanistan this long? Your boy Barrack Obama was in office for two terms, 8 years, from 2008 - 2016, sitting as commander in chief longer than any president during our time in Afghanistan. Surely if we're going to discuss
kicking the can down the road Obama should be included in that discussion?
Trump's inner circle had contacts with Russia? During Trump's entire time sitting as president, and to include time before and after being elected and serving, for political motivations ONLY monumental efforts were made to find dirt on Trump. Your beloved and thoroughly corrupt government and political operatives in the media found nothing worth a hill of fucking beans. In contrast strong evidence supports Joe Biden through his crackhead son and other family members foreign involvement to include Russia, Ukraine, and China, personally enriching themselves by using the power that comes with Joe Biden's involvement in governmental levers of power.
But neither Obama or Trump are President, or are responsible for the cluster fuck of a withdrawal we are seeing in Afghanistan. God help us, your boy Joe Biden is President. Any mention of Trump at this point in time is a shameful deflection from a partisan hack. There is a right way to handle things, or to "keep promises", and a wrong way. So I take it with your praise for "promises kept", you approve of Biden's thus far handling of a withdrawal from Afghanistan? It seems to me you would be quite isolated in the minority opinion. Our allies are publically criticizing and condemning Biden's handling of the situation, even going so far as characterizing it as "imbecilic". Saying they can no longer rely on the US as an ally. Allies and those who depend on the US to counter aggression on the world stage are quaking in their boots, and our enemies are emboldened and laughing at the ineptness, incompetence, and impotence of the current administration. There are thousands of US citizens currently trapped behind barbarous Taliban lines in Afghanistan, being told by our own government to make their own way to the airport, while at the same time also being told to shelter in place. There is no rational plan in place. No doubt a fly on the wall would reveal the Biden administration begging the fucking Taliban to pretty please allow our citizens safe passage to the airport. Word is there are negotiations currently being conducted for the fucking Taliban, and Al Qaida, and Isis, to allow an extension to the final withdrawal in approximately one week....pretty fucking please.
You voted for it, you praise it, you fucking own it. The stage is being set for US hostages, possible executions and beheadings, and/or the airport to be attacked and overrun. One rocket fired into the airport by the fucking Taliban, what then?
Take your Trump derangement nonsense and move on, if that is all you have to offer. Adults are talking here.